--- title: 2 Chronicles 11:16 (JPS 1917) — And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their h… · tree and pragmatics description: And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the LORD, the God of their fathers. Who acts: tribes. 2 Chronicles 11:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.248/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [2 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/) / [chapter 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/11/) / [11:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.16/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 11:16 · JPS 1917 And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the LORD, the God of their fathers. **Who acts:** tribes · **What happens:** set, seek, come, sacrifice · **To what, where:** hearts, LORD, Jerusalem, tribes This is 2 Chronicles 11:16 · 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 (tribes), 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:248 # text = And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the LORD, the God of their fathers. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tribes tribe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 15 amod _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 28 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 sacrifice sacrifice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 33 unto unto ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past | all tribes after priests of Israel *not said here* | priests's hearts | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient heart=Result | | 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | all tribes after priests of Israel *not said here* | the LORD | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | | | Jerusalem | all tribes after priests of Israel | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out tribe=Initial\_Location to jerusalem=Destination | | 4 | **sacrifice** | to-infinitive | | | | | | unto the LORD | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וְאַחֲרֵיהֶ֗ם מִכֹּל֙ שִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַנֹּֽתְנִים֙ אֶת־לְבָבָ֔ם לְבַקֵּ֕שׁ אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל בָּ֚אוּ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם לִזְבּ֕וֹחַ לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י אֲבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ [2 Chronicles 11:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:248` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [2 Chronicles 11:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.247/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 11:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.249/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 11:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.16/)