2 Chronicles 20:24 · JPS 1917
And when Judah came to the watch-tower of the wilderness, they looked upon the multitude; and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none that escaped.
Who acts: Judah, children, dead bodies, none · What happens: come, look, be, fall, escape · To what, where: watch tower, dead bodies
This is 2 Chronicles 20:24 · 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, dead bodies, none), 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 | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 3 | Judah | Judah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looked | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tower | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tower | det |
| 7 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tower | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 watch | punct |
| 9 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wilderness | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wilderness | det |
| 12 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tower | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 multitude | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 multitude | det |
| 18 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 fallen | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fallen | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 behold | punct |
| 22 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 28 fallen | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 behold | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bodies | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bodies | cop |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bodies | amod |
| 27 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fallen | nsubj |
| 28 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 looked | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 earth | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 earth | det |
| 31 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fallen | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 were | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 were | cc |
| 34 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 35 were | expl |
| 35 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looked | conj |
| 36 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 35 were | nsubj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 escaped | nsubj |
| 38 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 none | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Judah | the watch tower of the wilderness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tower=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | children = child | upon the multitude | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon multitude=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | children = child | dead bodies | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall | participle | dead bodies | to the earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | past | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | escape | past | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
וִֽיהוּדָ֛ה בָּ֥א עַל־הַמִּצְפֶּ֖ה לַמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַיִּפְנוּ֙ אֶל־הֶ֣הָמ֔וֹן וְהִנָּ֧ם פְּגָרִ֛ים נֹפְלִ֥ים אַ֖רְצָה וְאֵ֥ין פְּלֵיטָֽה׃
2 Chronicles 20:24: 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:442 of Mova's parse database.
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