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title: 2 Chronicles 20:3 (JPS 1917) — And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek unto the LORD; and h… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek unto the LORD; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. Who acts: Jehoshaphat. 2 Chronicles 20:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 20:3 · JPS 1917

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And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek unto the LORD; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

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**Who acts:** Jehoshaphat · **What happens:** fear, set, seek, proclaim · **To what, where:** Jehoshaphat, fast

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This is 2 Chronicles 20:3 · 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 (Jehoshaphat), 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:421
# text = And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek unto the LORD; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jehoshaphat	Jehoshaphat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fast	fast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **fear** | past | Jehoshaphat |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **set** | past | Jehoshaphat *not said here* | Jehoshaphat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Jehoshaphat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **proclaim** | past | Jehoshaphat | a fast |  |  | throughout all Judah |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fast=Theme |

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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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וַיִּרָ֕א וַיִּתֵּ֧ן יְהוֹשָׁפָ֛ט אֶת־פָּנָ֖יו לִדְר֣וֹשׁ לַיהוָ֑ה וַיִּקְרָא־צ֖וֹם עַל־כָּל־יְהוּדָֽה׃

[2 Chronicles 20:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.3/)

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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:421` 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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