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title: 2 Chronicles 14:9 (JPS 1917) — Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephath at Mareshah. Who acts: Asa, men. 2 Chronicles 14:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 14:9 · JPS 1917

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Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephath at Mareshah.

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**Who acts:** Asa, men · **What happens:** go out, meet, set · **To what, where:** Asa, battle, array

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This is 2 Chronicles 14:9 · 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, 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:307
# text = Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephath at Mareshah.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Asa	Asa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	array	array	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Zephath	Zephath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Mareshah	Mareshah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **go out** | past | Asa |  |  |  | then | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Asa *not said here* | Asa |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **set** | past | men *= man* | the battle |  | array |  | in the valley of Zephath; at Mareshah | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent battle=Theme in array=Destination |

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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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וַיֵּצֵ֥א אָסָ֖א לְפָנָ֑יו וַיַּֽעַרְכוּ֙ מִלְחָמָ֔ה בְּגֵ֥יא צְפַ֖תָה גֵ֥יא צְפַ֖תָה לְמָרֵשָֽׁה׃

[2 Chronicles 14:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.14.9/)

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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:307` 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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