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title: 2 Chronicles 20:2 (JPS 1917) — Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying: 'There cometh a… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Chronicles 20:2 · JPS 1917

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Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying: 'There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea from Aram; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar' — the same is En-gedi.

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**Who acts:** some, great multitude, children, same · **What happens:** come, tell, say, be · **To what, where:** Jehoshaphat, sea, Hazazon, En · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 20:2 · 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 (some, great multitude, children, same), 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:420
# text = Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying: 'There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea from Aram; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar' — the same is En-gedi.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	Jehoshaphat	Jehoshaphat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Aram	Aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Hazazon	Hazazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	_
35	tamar	tamar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
37	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	_
43	gedi	gedi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | some |  |  | there | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Jehoshaphat |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jehoshaphat=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | present | a great multitude |  |  | the sea; there |  | against thee; from Aram | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial\_Location from aram=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | present | children *= child* |  |  | Hazazon |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | the same | En |  |  |  |  | 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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וַיָּבֹ֗אוּ וַיַּגִּ֤ידוּ לִֽיהוֹשָׁפָט֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר בָּ֣א עָלֶ֜יךָ הָמ֥וֹן רָ֛ב מֵעֵ֥בֶר לַיָּ֖ם מֵאֲרָ֑ם וְהִנָּם֙ בְּחַֽצְצ֣וֹנ תָּמָ֔ר חַֽצְצ֣וֹנ תָּמָ֔ר הִ֖יא עֵ֥ינ גֶּֽדִי עֵ֥ינ גֶּֽדִי׃

[2 Chronicles 20:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.2/)

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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:420` 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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