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title: 2 Chronicles 35:23 (JPS 1917) — And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servan… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants: 'Have me away; for I am sore wounded.' Who acts: archers, king. 2 Chronicles 35:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 35:23 · JPS 1917

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And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants: 'Have me away; for I am sore wounded.'

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**Who acts:** archers, king · **What happens:** shoot, say, have away, wound · **To what, where:** king Josiah, me, I · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 35:23 · 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 (archers, 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:856
# text = And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants: 'Have me away; for I am sore wounded.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	archers	archer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Josiah	Josiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	sore	sore	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	wounded	wound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past | the archers |  |  | king Josiah |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at josiah=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | to Josiah's servants | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to servant=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have away** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | away *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 4 | **wound** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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וַיֹּרוּ֙ הַיֹּרִ֔ים לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ לַעֲבָדָיו֙ הַעֲבִיר֔וּנִי כִּ֥י הָחֳלֵ֖יתִי מְאֹֽד׃

[2 Chronicles 35:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.23/)

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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:856` 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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