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title: 2 Chronicles 32:21 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valour… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. Who acts: LORD, angel. 2 Chronicles 32:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 32:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria.

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**Who acts:** LORD, angel · **What happens:** send, cut off · **To what, where:** angel, mighty men, camp

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This is 2 Chronicles 32:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (LORD, angel), 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:753
# text = And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Assyria	Assyria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the LORD | a angel |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angel=Theme |
| 2 | **cut off** | past | a angel | all mighty men of valour and the leaders and captains |  | the camp of the king of Assyria |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector man=Eventuality |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח יְהוָה֙ מַלְאָ֔ךְ וַיַּכְחֵ֞ד כָּל־גִּבּ֥וֹר חַ֙יִל֙ וְנָגִ֣יד וְשָׂ֔ר בְּמַחֲנֵ֖ה מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיָּשָׁב֩ בְּבֹ֨שֶׁת פָּנִ֜ים לְאַרְצ֗וֹ וַיָּבֹא֙ בֵּ֣ית אֱלֹהָ֔יו וּמִֽיצִיאֵ֣י מֵעָ֔יו שָׁ֖ם הִפִּילֻ֥הוּ בֶחָֽרֶב׃

[2 Chronicles 32:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.21/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria.**
2. [So he returned with shame of face to his own land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.754/)
3. [And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.755/)

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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:753` 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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