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title: 2 Chronicles 13:17 (JPS 1917) — And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. Who acts: Abijah, thousand chosen men. 2 Chronicles 13:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 13:17 · JPS 1917

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And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

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**Who acts:** Abijah, thousand chosen men · **What happens:** slay, fall down, choose · **To what, where:** peoples

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This is 2 Chronicles 13:17 · 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, 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:292
# text = And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	Abijah	Abijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **slay** | past | Abijah and Abijah's people | peoples *= people* |  |  |  | with a great slaughter | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with slaughter=Instrument |
| 2 | **fall down** | past | thousand chosen men of Israel |  |  | there |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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וַיַּכּ֥וּ בָהֶ֛ם אֲבִיָּ֥ה וְעַמּ֖וֹ מַכָּ֣ה רַבָּ֑ה וַיִּפְּל֤וּ חֲלָלִים֙ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל חֲמֵשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֖לֶף אִ֥ישׁ בָּחֽוּר׃

[2 Chronicles 13:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.17/)

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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:292` 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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