--- title: 2 Chronicles 32:7 (JPS 1917) — 'Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid nor dismayed for the k… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him; for there is a Greater with us than with him: Who acts: you, multitude, Greater. 2 Chronicles 32:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.738/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [2 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/) / [chapter 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/32/) / [32:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.7/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 32:7 · JPS 1917 'Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him; for there is a Greater with us than with him: **Who acts:** you, multitude, Greater · **What happens:** be, not be, dismay This is 2 Chronicles 32:7 · 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 (you, multitude, Greater), 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:738 # text = 'Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him; for there is a Greater with us than with him: 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 3 cop _ _ 3 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 12 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 13 cc _ _ 13 dismayed dismay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Assyria Assyria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 24 cc _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 multitude multitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 32 expl _ _ 32 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Greater greater NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nmod _ _ 37 than than ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nmod _ _ 40 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for the king of Assyria nor all multitude; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **dismay** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | all multitude | | | | | with king | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | present | a Greater with us than king | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} חִזְק֣וּ וְאִמְצ֔וּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֣וּ וְאַל־תֵּחַ֗תּוּ מִפְּנֵי֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר וּמִלִּפְנֵ֖י כָּל־הֶהָמ֣וֹן אֲשֶׁר־עִמּ֑וֹ כִּֽי־עִמָּ֥נוּ רַ֖ב מֵעִמּֽוֹ׃ [2 Chronicles 32:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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