--- title: 2 Chronicles 28:8 (JPS 1917) — And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren tw… · tree and pragmatics description: And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. 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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 (children), 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:620 # text = And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 captive captive NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 compound _ _ 13 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 14 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 24 also also ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 spoil spoil NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 spoil spoil NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Samaria Samaria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry away** | past | the children of Israel | captive of children's brethren | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | | 2 | **take away** | past | the children of Israel *not said here* | much spoil | | | | from children *= child*; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme from they=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **bring** | past | the children of Israel *not said here* | the spoil | Samaria | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme to samaria=Destination | 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} וַיִּשְׁבּוּ֩ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל מֵֽאֲחֵיהֶ֜ם מָאתַ֣יִם אֶ֗לֶף נָשִׁים֙ בָּנִ֣ים וּבָנ֔וֹת וְגַם־שָׁלָ֥ל רָ֖ב בָּזְז֣וּ מֵהֶ֑ם וַיָּבִ֥יאוּ אֶת־הַשָּׁלָ֖ל לְשֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃ס [2 Chronicles 28:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.28.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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