--- title: 2 Chronicles 25:17 (JPS 1917) — Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son o… · tree and pragmatics description: Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: 'Come, let us look one another in the face.' 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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 (Amaziah, us), 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:564 # text = Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: 'Come, let us look one another in the face.' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 Amaziah Amaziah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Joash Joash PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Jehoahaz Jehoahaz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 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 Jehu Jehu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 33 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 one one PRON PRP PronType=Rcp 34 obj _ _ 36 another another PRON PRP PronType=Rcp 35 fixed _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Amaziah | advice | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | | 2 | **send** | past | Amaziah *not said here* | | Joash | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to joash=Destination | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Amaziah *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **come** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | infinitive | us *not said here* | one | | the face | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute | 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} וַיִּוָּעַ֗ץ אֲמַצְיָ֙הוּ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֔ה וַ֠יִּשְׁלַח אֶל־יוֹאָ֨שׁ בֶּן־יְהוֹאָחָ֧ז בֶּן־יֵה֛וּא מֶ֥לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר לְכָ֖ה נִתְרָאֶ֥ה פָנִֽים׃ [2 Chronicles 25:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.25.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:564` 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. - ← previous: [2 Chronicles 25:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.563/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 25:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.565/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 25:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.25.17/)