--- title: 2 Chronicles 36:20 (JPS 1917) — And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon;… · tree and pragmatics description: And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia; Who acts: God, vessels. 2 Chronicles 36:20 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.882/) [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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/36/) / [36:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.36.20/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 36:20 · JPS 1917 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia; **Who acts:** God, vessels · **What happens:** escape, carry away, be · **To what, where:** sword, vessels, Babylon, servants, God This is 2 Chronicles 36:20 · 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 (God, vessels), 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:882 # text = And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 escaped escape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 until until ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 reign reign NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **escape** | past · perfect | | | | the sword | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sword=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **carry away** | past | God | vessels *= vessel* | Babylon | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to babylon=Destination | | 3 | **is a** | past | vessels *= vessel* | servants | God | | until the reign of the kingdom of Persia | | tree rules | 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} וַיֶּ֛גֶל הַשְּׁאֵרִ֥ית מִן־הַחֶ֖רֶב אֶל־בָּבֶ֑ל וַֽיִּהְיוּ־ל֤וֹ וּלְבָנָיו֙ לַעֲבָדִ֔ים עַד־מְלֹ֖ךְ מַלְכ֥וּת פָּרָֽס׃ [2 Chronicles 36:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.36.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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