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title: 2 Chronicles 29:9 (JPS 1917) — For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our… · tree and pragmatics
description: For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. Who acts: fathers, sons. 2 Chronicles 29:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 29:9 · JPS 1917

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For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

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**Who acts:** fathers, sons · **What happens:** fall, be · **To what, where:** captivity

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This is 2 Chronicles 29:9 · 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 (fathers, sons), 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:648
# text = For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present · perfect | our fathers |  |  |  |  | by the sword | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sword=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | our sons and our daughters and our wives |  |  | captivity |  | for this | tree rules |

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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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וְהִנֵּ֛ה נָפְל֥וּ אֲבוֹתֵ֖ינוּ בֶּחָ֑רֶב וּבָנֵ֨ינוּ וּבְנוֹתֵ֧ינוּ וְנָשֵׁ֛ינוּ בַּשְּׁבִ֖י עַל־זֹֽאת׃

[2 Chronicles 29:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.29.9/)

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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:648` 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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