2 Chronicles 20:18 · JPS 1917
And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
Who acts: Jehoshaphat, Judah · What happens: bow, fall down, worship · To what, where: head, ground, LORD
This is 2 Chronicles 20:18 · 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 (Jehoshaphat, Judah), 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 bowed | cc |
| 2 | Jehoshaphat | Jehoshaphat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 face | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 Judah | det:predet |
| 15 | Judah | Judah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 inhabitants | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 inhabitants | det |
| 18 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Judah | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Jerusalem | case |
| 20 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 inhabitants | nmod |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 fell | advmod |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 LORD | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 LORD | det |
| 25 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 worshipping | punct |
| 27 | worshipping | worship | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 fell | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 LORD | det |
| 29 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 worshipping | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | Jehoshaphat | Jehoshaphat's head | the ground | with Jehoshaphat's face | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Topic to ground=Recipient | ||
| 2 | fall down | past | all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem | before the LORD | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before lord=Location | |||
| 3 | worship | gerund | all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem not said here | the LORD | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus |
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
וַיִּקֹּ֧ד יְהוֹשָׁפָ֛ט אַפַּ֖יִם אָ֑רְצָה וְכָל־יְהוּדָ֞ה וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם נָֽפְלוּ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה לְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֺ֖ת לַיהוָֽה׃
2 Chronicles 20:18: 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:436 of Mova's parse database.
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