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title: 2 Chronicles 20:1 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass after this, that the children of Moab, and the c… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Chronicles 20:1 · JPS 1917

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And it came to pass after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** come, pass · **To what, where:** it, battle

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This is 2 Chronicles 20:1 · 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 (children), 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:419
# text = And it came to pass after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ammon	Ammon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Ammonites	Ammonite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	csubj	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Jehoshaphat	Jehoshaphat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **come** | past |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after this |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the children of Moab and the children of Ammon |  |  | battle |  | against Jehoshaphat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to battle=Initial\_Location |

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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 אַֽחֲרֵי כֵ֡ןבָּ֣אוּ בְנֵי־מוֹאָב֩ וּבְנֵ֨י עַמּ֜וֹן וְעִמָּהֶ֧ם ׀ מֵֽהָעַמּוֹנִ֛ים עַל־יְהוֹשָׁפָ֖ט לַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

[2 Chronicles 20:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.1/)

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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:419` 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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