2 Chronicles 20:4 · JPS 1917

And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help of the LORD; even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

Who acts: Judah, children · What happens: gather, seek, come, help · To what, where: children, help, cities, LORD

This is 2 Chronicles 20:4 · 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 (Judah, children), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 gathered	cc
2	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gathered	nsubj
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 gathered	obj
5	together	together	ADV	_	3 gathered	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seek	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 seek	mark
8	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gathered	advcl
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seek	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 LORD	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 LORD	det
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 help	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
14	even	even	ADV	_	19 cities	advmod
15	out	out	ADP	_	19 cities	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 cities	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 cities	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cities	det
19	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Judah	case
21	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 cities	nmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 seek	mark
25	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 came	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 LORD	det
27	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 seek	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	Judah	children = child		together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
2	seek	to-infinitive	Judah not said here	help of the LORD			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme
3	come	past	children = child		all cities of Judah		tree rules
4	seek	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	the LORD			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme
5	help			the LORD			nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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

וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ יְהוּדָ֔ה לְבַקֵּ֖שׁ מֵֽיְהוָ֑ה גַּ֚ם מִכָּל־עָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה בָּ֖אוּ לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

2 Chronicles 20:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2CH:422 of Mova's parse database.

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