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title: 2 Chronicles 13:3 (JPS 1917) — And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even fo… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Chronicles 13:3 · JPS 1917

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And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valour.

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**Who acts:** Abijah, Jeroboam, thousand chosen men · **What happens:** join, choose, set, be · **To what, where:** battle, array, mighty men

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This is 2 Chronicles 13:3 · 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 (Abijah, Jeroboam, thousand chosen men), 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:277
# text = And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valour.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Abijah	Abijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Jeroboam	Jeroboam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	array	array	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	compound	_	_
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	compound	_	_
33	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	acl:relcl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **join** | past | Abijah | battle |  |  |  | with a army of valiant men of war | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent battle=Patient with army=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set** | past | Jeroboam | the battle |  | array |  | against Abijah; with thousand chosen men | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent battle=Theme in array=Destination |
| 4 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | thousand chosen men | mighty men |  |  |  | of valour | tree rules |

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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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וַיֶּאְסֹ֨ר אֲבִיָּ֜ה אֶת־הַמִּלְחָמָ֗ה בְּחַ֙יִל֙ גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י מִלְחָמָ֔ה אַרְבַּע־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֖לֶף אִ֣ישׁ בָּח֑וּרס וְיָרָבְעָ֗ם עָרַ֤ךְ עִמּוֹ֙ מִלְחָמָ֔ה בִּשְׁמוֹנֶ֨ה מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֛לֶף אִ֥ישׁ בָּח֖וּר גִּבּ֥וֹר חָֽיִל׃ס

[2 Chronicles 13:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.3/)

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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:277` of Mova's parse database.

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