--- title: 2 Chronicles 32:6 (JPS 1917) — And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them togeth… · tree and pragmatics description: And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying: Who acts: king. 2 Chronicles 32:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.737/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [2 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/) / [chapter 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/32/) / [32:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.6/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 32:6 · JPS 1917 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying: **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** set, gather, speak, say · **To what, where:** captains, king, broad place, cities · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Chronicles 32:6 · 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 (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:737 # text = And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying: 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 captains captain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 together together ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 encouragingly encouragingly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 35 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past | king | captains of war | | | | over the people | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent captain=Theme over people=Destination | | 2 | **gather** | past | king *not said here* | captains *= captain* | king | the broad place at the gate of the city | | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to he=Co-Patient | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | king *not said here* | | cities *= city* | | | encouragingly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | king *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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} וַיִּתֵּ֛ן שָׂרֵ֥י מִלְחָמ֖וֹת עַל־הָעָ֑ם וַיִּקְבְּצֵ֣ם אֵלָ֗יו אֶל־רְחוֹב֙ שַׁ֣עַר הָעִ֔יר וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר עַל־לְבָבָ֖ם לֵאמֹֽר׃ [2 Chronicles 32:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:737` 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 32:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.736/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 32:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.738/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 32:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.6/)