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title: 2 Chronicles 35:20 (JPS 1917) — After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Eg… · tree and pragmatics
description: After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him. Who acts: Josiah, Neco king. 2 Chronicles 35:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 35:20 · JPS 1917

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After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

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**Who acts:** Josiah, Neco king · **What happens:** prepare, go up, fight, go out · **To what, where:** temple

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This is 2 Chronicles 35:20 · 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 (Josiah, Neco 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:852
# text = After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	Josiah	Josiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	Neco	Neco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Carchemish	Carchemish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Euphrates	Euphrates	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Josiah	Josiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **prepare** | past · perfect | Josiah | the temple |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Patient |
| 2 | **go up** | past | Neco king of Egypt |  |  |  | after this |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | Neco king of Egypt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Carchemish by the Euphrates | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go out** | past | Josiah |  |  |  |  | against king; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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אַחֲרֵ֣י כָל־זֹ֗את אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵכִ֤ין יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙ אֶת־הַבַּ֔יִת עָלָ֞ה נְכ֧וֹ מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֛יִם לְהִלָּחֵ֥ם בְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ עַל־פְּרָ֑ת וַיֵּצֵ֥א לִקְרָאת֖וֹ יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃

[2 Chronicles 35:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.20/)

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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:852` 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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