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title: 2 Chronicles 20:23 (JPS 1917) — For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another. Who acts: children, one. 2 Chronicles 20:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the
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# 2 Chronicles 20:23 · JPS 1917

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For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

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**Who acts:** children, one · **What happens:** stand up, slay, destroy, make, help · **To what, where:** inhabitants, children, end, another

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This is 2 Chronicles 20:23 · 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, one), 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:441
# text = For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ammon	Ammon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Seir	Seir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Seir	Seir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 children of Ammon and Moab |  |  | the inhabitants of mount Seir |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against inhabitant=Location |
| 2 | **slay** | to-infinitive | the children of Ammon and Moab *not said here* |  |  |  |  | utterly *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **destroy** | infinitive | the children of Ammon and Moab *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect | children *= child* | a end of the inhabitants of Seir |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |
| 5 | **help** | past | every one |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | every one *not said here* | another |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=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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וַ֠יַּֽעַמְדוּ בְּנֵ֨י עַמּ֧וֹן וּמוֹאָ֛ב עַל־יֹשְׁבֵ֥י הַר־שֵׂעִ֖יר לְהַחֲרִ֣ים וּלְהַשְׁמִ֑יד וּכְכַלּוֹתָם֙ בְּיוֹשְׁבֵ֣י שֵׂעִ֔יר עָזְר֥וּ אִישׁ־בְּרֵעֵ֖הוּ לְמַשְׁחִֽית׃

[2 Chronicles 20:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.23/)

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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:441` 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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