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title: 2 Chronicles 15:16 (JPS 1917) — And also Maacah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from bein… · tree and pragmatics
description: And also Maacah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. Who acts: LORD, Maacah, Asa. 2 Chronicles 15:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tre
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# 2 Chronicles 15:16 · JPS 1917

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And also Maacah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

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**Who acts:** LORD, Maacah, Asa · **What happens:** remove, be, make, cut down, burn, image · **To what, where:** Maacah, queen, abominable image, image, dust, brook

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This is 2 Chronicles 15:16 · 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 (LORD, Maacah, Asa), 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:329
# text = And also Maacah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
3	Maacah	Maacah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	dislocated	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Asa	Asa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
16	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	abominable	abominable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Asherah	Asherah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	Asa	Asa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
38	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	burnt	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	Kidron	Kidron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	flat	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | past | LORD | Maacah |  |  |  | Maacah *dislocated* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund | LORD *not said here* | queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect | Maacah | a abominable image |  |  |  | for a Asherah | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent image=Product for asherah=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **cut down** | past | Asa | Maacah's image |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Product |
| 5 | **make** | past | Asa *not said here* | dust of dust |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dust=Product |
| 6 | **burn** | past | Asa *not said here* | image |  | the brook |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **image** |  | Maacah |  |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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}

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וְגַֽם־מַעֲכָ֞ה אֵ֣ם ׀ אָסָ֣א הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ הֱסִירָהּ֙ מִגְּבִירָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־עָשְׂתָ֥ה לַאֲשֵׁרָ֖ה מִפְלָ֑צֶת וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת אָסָא֙ אֶת־מִפְלַצְתָּ֔הּ וַיָּ֕דֶק וַיִּשְׂרֹ֖ף בְּנַ֥חַל קִדְרֽוֹן׃

[2 Chronicles 15:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.15.16/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:329` 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.

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