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title: 2 Chronicles 30:8 (JPS 1917) — Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselve… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Chronicles 30:8 · JPS 1917

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Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into His sanctuary, which He hath sanctified for ever, and serve the LORD your God, that His fierce anger may turn away from you.

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**Who acts:** ye, king, fierce anger · **What happens:** not be, yield, enter, sanctify, serve, turn away · **To what, where:** yourselves, sanctuary, LORD

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This is 2 Chronicles 30:8 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, king, fierce anger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:2CH:688
# text = Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into His sanctuary, which He hath sanctified for ever, and serve the LORD your God, that His fierce anger may turn away from you.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	stiffnecked	stiffnecked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	yield	yield	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	enter	enter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
26	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	sanctified	sanctify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	28	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	serve	serve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
40	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
45	away	away	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  | now | stiffnecked *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **yield** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | yourselves |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme |
| 3 | **enter** | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  | king's sanctuary |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sanctuary=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sanctify** | present · perfect | king | king's sanctuary |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **serve** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Attribute |
| 6 | **turn away** | may | king's fierce anger |  |  |  |  | from you; away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from you=Source |
| 7 | **anger** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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עַתָּ֕ה אַל־תַּקְשׁ֥וּ עָרְפְּכֶ֖ם כַּאֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם תְּנוּ־יָ֣ד לַיהוָ֗ה וּבֹ֤אוּ לְמִקְדָּשׁוֹ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִקְדִּ֣ישׁ לְעוֹלָ֔ם וְעִבְדוּ֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֔ם וְיָשֹׁ֥ב מִכֶּ֖ם חֲר֥וֹן אַפּֽוֹ׃

[2 Chronicles 30:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.30.8/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:688` of Mova's parse database.

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