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title: 2 Chronicles 14:7 (JPS 1917) — And Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah thre… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Chronicles 14:7 · JPS 1917

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And Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand; all these were mighty men of valour.

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**Who acts:** Asa, army, Benjamin, these · **What happens:** have, bear, draw, be · **To what, where:** army, Judah, bucklers, shields, bows, mighty men

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This is 2 Chronicles 14:7 · 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 (Asa, army, Benjamin, these), 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:305
# text = And Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand; all these were mighty men of valour.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Asa	Asa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	bucklers	buckler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	compound	_	_
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	appos	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	fourscore	fourscore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	compound	_	_
35	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
38	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Asa | a army |  | Judah |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | past | a army | bucklers and spears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buckler=Patient |
| 3 | **bear** | past | Benjamin | shields |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Patient |
| 4 | **draw** | past | Benjamin *not said here* | bows |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | these | 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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וַיְהִ֣י לְאָסָ֗א חַיִל֮ נֹשֵׂ֣א צִנָּ֣ה וָרֹמַח֒ מִֽיהוּדָה֙ שְׁלֹ֣שׁ מֵא֣וֹת אֶ֔לֶףס וּמִבִּנְיָמִ֗ן נֹשְׂאֵ֤י מָגֵן֙ וְדֹ֣רְכֵי קֶ֔שֶׁת מָאתַ֥יִם וּשְׁמוֹנִ֖ים אָ֑לֶף כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה גִּבּ֥וֹרֵי חָֽיִל׃

[2 Chronicles 14:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.14.7/)

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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:305` of Mova's parse database.

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