2 Chronicles 35:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
But he sent ambassadors to him, saying: 'What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah?
Who acts: Josiah, I, thou · What happens: send, say, have, do, king · To what, where: ambassadors, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is 2 Chronicles 35:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Josiah, I, thou), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 sent | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sent | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 have | obj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 thee | case |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 do | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 king | punct |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 king | nsubj |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | vocative |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Judah | case |
| 22 | Judah | Judah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 king | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Josiah | ambassadors | king | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Josiah not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | with thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | king | thou | of Judah | 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
וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח אֵלָ֣יו מַלְאָכִ֣ים ׀ לֵאמֹר֩ ׀ מַה־לִּ֨י וָלָ֜ךְ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֗ה לֹא־עָלֶ֨יךָ אַתָּ֤ה הַיּוֹם֙ כִּ֚י אֶל־בֵּ֣ית מִלְחַמְתִּ֔י וֵאלֹהִ֖ים אָמַ֣ר לְבַֽהֲלֵ֑נִי חֲדַל־לְךָ֛ מֵאֱלֹהִ֥ים אֲשֶׁר־עִמִּ֖י וְאַל־יַשְׁחִיתֶֽךָ׃
2 Chronicles 35:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- But he sent ambassadors to him, saying: 'What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah?
- I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war; and God hath given command to speed me; forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that He destroy thee not.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2CH:853 of Mova's parse database.
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