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title: 2 Chronicles 5:12 (JPS 1917) — also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Hema… · tree and pragmatics
description: also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brethren, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets — Who acts: Levites,
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# 2 Chronicles 5:12 · JPS 1917

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also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brethren, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets —

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**Who acts:** Levites, hundred priests · **What happens:** be, array, stand, sound · **To what, where:** singers, Levites, fine linen, east end

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This is 2 Chronicles 5:12 · 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 (Levites, hundred priests), 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:93
# text = also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brethren, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets —
1	also	also	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Levites	Levites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	Asaph	Asaph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Heman	Heman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Jeduthun	Jeduthun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	arrayed	array	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	cymbals	cymbal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	psalteries	psaltery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	harps	harp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
39	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nmod	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	55	nummod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	conj	_	_
55	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
56	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	55	acl	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	_
59	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Levites | the singers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **array** | participle |  | the Levites *not said here* |  | fine linen |  | with cymbals and psalteries and harps | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the Levites |  |  |  | at the east end of the altar |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location |
| 4 | **sound** | gerund | hundred priests with ends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with trumpets | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with trumpet=Theme |

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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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וְהַלְוִיִּ֣ם הַמְשֹׁרֲרִ֣ים לְכֻלָּ֡ם לְאָסָ֡ף לְהֵימָ֣ן לִֽ֠ידֻתוּן וְלִבְנֵיהֶ֨ם וְלַאֲחֵיהֶ֜ם מְלֻבָּשִׁ֣ים בּ֗וּץ בִּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙ וּבִנְבָלִ֣ים וְכִנֹּר֔וֹת עֹמְדִ֖ים מִזְרָ֣ח לַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ וְעִמָּהֶ֤ם כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ לְמֵאָ֣ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֔ים מַחְצְרִ֖ים בַּחֲצֹֽצְרֽוֹת׃

[2 Chronicles 5:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.5.12/)

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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:93` of Mova's parse database.

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