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title: 2 Chronicles 20:4 (JPS 1917) — And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help of the LORD; ev… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help of the LORD; even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD. Who acts: Judah, children. 2 Chronicles 20:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 20:4 · JPS 1917

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And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help of the LORD; even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

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**Who acts:** Judah, children · **What happens:** gather, seek, come, help · **To what, where:** children, help, cities, LORD

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This is 2 Chronicles 20:4 · 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 (Judah, 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:422
# text = And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help of the LORD; even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **gather** | past | Judah | children *= child* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Judah *not said here* | help of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | children *= child* |  |  | all cities of Judah |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 5 | **help** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ יְהוּדָ֔ה לְבַקֵּ֖שׁ מֵֽיְהוָ֑ה גַּ֚ם מִכָּל־עָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה בָּ֖אוּ לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

[2 Chronicles 20:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.4/)

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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:422` 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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