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title: 2 Chronicles 23:16 (JPS 1917) — And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD'S people. Who acts: Jehoiada, priests. 2 Chronicles 23:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 23:16 · JPS 1917

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And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.

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**Who acts:** Jehoiada, priests · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** covenant, people

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This is 2 Chronicles 23:16 · 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 (Jehoiada, priests), 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:509
# text = And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jehoiada	Jehoiada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	'S	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	acl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **make** | past | Jehoiada | a covenant |  |  |  | between Jehoiada | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covenant=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | should | priests *= priest* | the LORD's people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת יְהוֹיָדָע֙ בְּרִ֔ית בֵּינ֕וֹ וּבֵ֥ין כָּל־הָעָ֖ם וּבֵ֣ין הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ לִהְי֥וֹת לְעָ֖ם לַיהוָֽה׃

[2 Chronicles 23:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.23.16/)

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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:509` 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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