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title: 2 Chronicles 24:6 (JPS 1917) — And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and unto him: 'Why hast… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Chronicles 24:6 · JPS 1917

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And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and unto him: 'Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?'

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**Who acts:** king, thou · **What happens:** call, not require, bring in, tax · **To what, where:** tax, Judah, Moses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 24:6 · 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 (king, 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:2CH:520
# text = And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and unto him: 'Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Jehoiada	Jehoiada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
15	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Levites	Levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	testimony	testimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
57	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | for Jehoiada; unto Joash | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for jehoiada=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **require** | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  | of the Levites | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **bring in** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | the tax of Moses and the congregation of Israel |  | Judah and Jerusalem |  | for the tent of the testimony | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tax=Asset |
| 4 | **tax** |  |  | Moses and the congregation of Israel |  |  |  |  | nom tax «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיִּקְרָ֣א הַמֶּלֶךְ֮ לִֽיהוֹיָדָ֣ע הָרֹאשׁ֒ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֗וֹ מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ לֹֽא־דָרַ֣שְׁתָּ עַל־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם לְהָבִ֞יא מִֽיהוּדָ֣ה וּמִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֗ם אֶת־מַשְׂאַת֙ מֹשֶׁ֣ה עֶֽבֶד־יְהוָ֔ה וְהַקָּהָ֖ל לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לְאֹ֖הֶל הָעֵדֽוּת׃

[2 Chronicles 24:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.24.6/)

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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:520` 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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