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title: 2 Chronicles 20:19 (JPS 1917) — And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the childr… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice. Who acts: Levites. 2 Chronicles 20:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 20:19 · JPS 1917

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And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.

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**Who acts:** Levites · **What happens:** stand up, praise · **To what, where:** LORD

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This is 2 Chronicles 20:19 · 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 (Levites), 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:437
# text = And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Levites	Levite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Kohathites	kohathite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Korahites	korahite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	exceeding	exceedingly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
34	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **stand up** | past | the Levites of the children of the Kohathites and the children of the Korahites |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **praise** | to-infinitive | the Levites of the children of the Kohathites and the children of the Korahites *not said here* | the LORD |  |  |  | with a loud voice | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=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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וַיָּקֻ֧מוּ הַלְוִיִּ֛ם מִן־בְּנֵ֥י הַקְּהָתִ֖ים וּמִן־בְּנֵ֣י הַקָּרְחִ֑ים לְהַלֵּ֗ל לַיהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּק֥וֹל גָּד֖וֹל לְמָֽעְלָה׃

[2 Chronicles 20:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.19/)

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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:437` 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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