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title: 2 Chronicles 25:23 (JPS 1917) — And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joas… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits. Who acts: Joash king. 2 Chronicles 25:23 in JPS 1917 wit
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# 2 Chronicles 25:23 · JPS 1917

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And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

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**Who acts:** Joash king · **What happens:** take, bring, break down · **To what, where:** Amaziah king, Beth shemesh, king, Jerusalem, wall, gate

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This is 2 Chronicles 25:23 · 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 (Joash king), 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:570
# text = And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Joash	Joash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Amaziah	Amaziah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Joash	Joash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Jehoahaz	Jehoahaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
25	shemesh	shemesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	compound	_	_
51	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	appos	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Joash king of Israel | Amaziah king of Judah |  | Beth shemesh |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent king=Theme at shemesh=Asset |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Joash king of Israel *not said here* | king | Jerusalem |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to jerusalem=Destination |
| 3 | **break down** | past | Joash king of Israel *not said here* | the wall of Jerusalem |  | the gate of Ephraim |  | unto the corner gate | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=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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וְאֵת֩ אֲמַצְיָ֨הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֜ה בֶּן־יוֹאָ֣שׁ בֶּן־יְהוֹאָחָ֗ז תָּפַ֛שׂ יוֹאָ֥שׁ מֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּבֵ֣ית שָׁ֑מֶשׁ בֵ֣ית שָׁ֑מֶשׁ וַיְבִיאֵ֙הוּ֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וַיִּפְרֹ֞ץ בְּחוֹמַ֣ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם מִשַּׁ֤עַר אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ עַד־שַׁ֣עַר הַפּוֹנֶ֔ה אַרְבַּ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת אַמָּֽה׃

[2 Chronicles 25:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.25.23/)

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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:570` of Mova's parse database.

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