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title: 2 Chronicles 32:4 (JPS 1917) — So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Chronicles 32:4 · JPS 1917

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So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying: 'Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?'

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**Who acts:** people, brook, kings · **What happens:** gather, stop, flow, say, come, find · **To what, where:** much people, fountains, midst, much water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 32:4 · 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 (people, brook, kings), 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:735
# text = So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying: 'Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?'
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
31	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Assyria	Assyria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
41	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past · passive |  | much people |  | there |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: people=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | past | people | all fountains and the brook |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fountain=Eventuality |
| 3 | **flow** | past | the brook |  |  | the midst of the land |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through midst=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | should | the kings of Assyria |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **find** | infinitive | the kings of Assyria *not said here* | much water |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |

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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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וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ עַם־רָ֔ב וַֽיִּסְתְּמוּ֙ אֶת־כָּל־הַמַּעְיָנ֔וֹת וְאֶת־הַנַּ֛חַל הַשּׁוֹטֵ֥ף בְּתוֹךְ־הָאָ֖רֶץ לֵאמֹ֑ר לָ֤מָּה יָב֙וֹאוּ֙ מַלְכֵ֣י אַשּׁ֔וּר וּמָצְא֖וּ מַ֥יִם רַבִּֽים׃

[2 Chronicles 32:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.4/)

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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:735` 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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