--- title: 2 Chronicles 26:16 (JPS 1917) — But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up so that he did corru… · tree and pragmatics description: But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against the LORD his God; for he went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense. Who acts: Uzziah. 2 Chronicles 26:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.592/) [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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/26/) / [26:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.26.16/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 26:16 · JPS 1917 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against the LORD his God; for he went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense. **Who acts:** Uzziah · **What happens:** be, lift up, do, trespass, go, burn · **To what, where:** heart, temple, incense This is 2 Chronicles 26:16 · 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 (Uzziah), 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:592 # text = But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against the LORD his God; for he went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 lifted lift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 15 fixed _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 16 corruptly corruptly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 trespassed trespass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 against against ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 temple temple NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 38 incense incense NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 upon upon ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 incense incense NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Uzziah | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lift up** | past · passive | | Uzziah's heart | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **do** | past | Uzziah | | | | | corruptly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **trespass** | past | Uzziah | | | | | against the LORD | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | past | Uzziah | | | the temple of the LORD | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into temple=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **burn** | to-infinitive | Uzziah *not said here* | incense | | | | upon the altar of incense | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent incense=Theme | 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} וּכְחֶזְקָת֗וֹ גָּבַ֤הּ לִבּוֹ֙ עַד־לְהַשְׁחִ֔ית וַיִּמְעַ֖ל בַּיהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֑יו וַיָּבֹא֙ אֶל־הֵיכַ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה לְהַקְטִ֖יר עַל־מִזְבַּ֥ח הַקְּטֹֽרֶת׃ [2 Chronicles 26:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.26.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:592` 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 26:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.591/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 26:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.593/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 26:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.26.16/)