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title: 2 Chronicles 29:30 (JPS 1917) — Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. Who acts: Hezekiah. 2 Chronicles 29:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 29:30 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer.

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**Who acts:** Hezekiah · **What happens:** command, sing, word · **To what, where:** Levites, praises, David · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 29:30 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Hezekiah), 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:672
# text = Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Levites	Levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Asaph	Asaph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	seer	seer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **command** | past | Hezekiah and the princes | the Levites |  |  |  | moreover *property* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent levite=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hezekiah and the princes *not said here* | praises |  |  |  | unto the LORD; with the words of David and Asaph | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme |
| 3 | **word** |  |  | David and Asaph |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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וַ֠יֹּאמֶר יְחִזְקִיָּ֨הוּ הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ וְהַשָּׂרִים֙ לַלְוִיִּ֔ם לְהַלֵּל֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה בְּדִבְרֵ֥י דָוִ֖יד וְאָסָ֣ף הַחֹזֶ֑ה וַֽיְהַלְלוּ֙ עַד־לְשִׂמְחָ֔ה וַֽיִּקְּד֖וּ וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוֽוּ׃פ

[2 Chronicles 29:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.29.30/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer.**
2. [And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.673/)

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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:672` 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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