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title: 2 Chronicles 32:8 (JPS 1917) — with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help… · tree and pragmatics
description: with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles.' And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. Who acts: people, our. 2 Chronicles 32:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 32:8 · JPS 1917

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with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles.' And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

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**Who acts:** people, our · **What happens:** be, help, fight, rest, battle, word · **To what, where:** arm, LORD, us, battles, people, words

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This is 2 Chronicles 32:8 · 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 (people, our), 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:739
# text = with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles.' And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a arm but the LORD |  |  |  | with king; of flesh | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the LORD |  |  |  | with us | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  | us |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive |  | our battles |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **rest** | past | the people | people |  | the words of Hezekiah king of Judah |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme upon word=Location |
| 6 | **battle** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **word** |  |  | Hezekiah king of Judah |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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עִמּוֹ֙ זְר֣וֹעַ בָּשָׂ֔ר וְעִמָּ֜נוּ יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ לְעָזְרֵ֔נוּ וּלְהִלָּחֵ֖ם מִלְחֲמֹתֵ֑נוּ וַיִּסָּמְכ֣וּ הָעָ֔ם עַל־דִּבְרֵ֖י יְחִזְקִיָּ֥הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָֽה׃פ

[2 Chronicles 32:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.8/)

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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:739` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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