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title: 2 Chronicles 23:1 (JPS 1917) — And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him. Who acts: Jehoiada. 2 Chronic
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# 2 Chronicles 23:1 · JPS 1917

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And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

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**Who acts:** Jehoiada · **What happens:** strengthen, take · **To what, where:** Jehoiada, captains, covenant

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This is 2 Chronicles 23:1 · 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 (Jehoiada), 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:492
# text = And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	Jehoiada	Jehoiada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Azariah	Azariah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Jeroham	Jeroham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Ishmael	Ishmael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Jehohanan	Jehohanan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Azariah	Azariah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Obed	Obed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Maaseiah	Maaseiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Adaiah	Adaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	Elishaphat	Elishaphat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Zichri	Zichri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nmod	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **strengthen** | past | Jehoiada | Jehoiada |  |  | year |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | Jehoiada *not said here* | the captains of hundreds |  | covenant with Jehoiada |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent captain=Theme into covenant=Destination |

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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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וּבַשָּׁנָ֨ה הַשְּׁבִעִ֜ית הִתְחַזַּ֣ק יְהוֹיָדָ֗ע וַיִּקַּ֣ח אֶת־שָׂרֵ֣י הַמֵּא֡וֹת לַעֲזַרְיָ֣הוּ בֶן־יְרֹחָ֡ם וּלְיִשְׁמָעֵ֣אל בֶּן־יְ֠הוֹחָנָן וְלַֽעֲזַרְיָ֨הוּ בֶן־עוֹבֵ֜ד וְאֶת־מַעֲשֵׂיָ֧הוּ בֶן־עֲדָיָ֛הוּ וְאֶת־אֱלִישָׁפָ֥ט בֶּן־זִכְרִ֖י עִמּ֥וֹ בַבְּרִֽית׃

[2 Chronicles 23:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.23.1/)

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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:492` of Mova's parse database.

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