--- title: 2 Chronicles 32:18 (JPS 1917) — And they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language unto the peop… · tree and pragmatics description: And they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to terrify them, and to affright them; that they might take the city. Who acts: people. 2 Chronicles 32:18 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.750/) [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/) / [32:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.18/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 32:18 · JPS 1917 And they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to terrify them, and to affright them; that they might take the city. **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** cry, be, terrify, affright, take · **To what, where:** language, wall, people, city This is 2 Chronicles 32:18 · 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), 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:750 # text = And they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to terrify them, and to affright them; that they might take the city. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Jews Jew PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 ' ' PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 unto unto ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 acl:relcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 terrify terrify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 affright affright VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | people | | | the Jews's language | | with a loud voice; unto the people of Jerusalem | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in language=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | the people of Jerusalem | | | the wall | | | tree rules | | 3 | **terrify** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | people | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 4 | **affright** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | might | people | the city | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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} וַיִּקְרְא֨וּ בְקוֹל־גָּד֜וֹל יְהוּדִ֗ית עַל־עַ֤ם יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־הַֽחוֹמָ֔ה לְיָֽרְאָ֖ם וּֽלְבַהֲלָ֑ם לְמַ֖עַן יִלְכְּד֥וּ אֶת־הָעִֽיר׃ [2 Chronicles 32:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:750` 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. - ← previous: [2 Chronicles 32:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.749/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 32:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.751/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 32:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.18/)