--- title: 2 Chronicles 32:12 (JPS 1917) — Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars… · tree and pragmatics description: Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying: Ye shall worship before one altar, and upon it shall ye offer? 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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 (same Hezekiah, Ye), 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:743 # text = Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying: Ye shall worship before one altar, and upon it shall ye offer? 1 Hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Hezekiah Hezekiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 away away ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 altars altar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 23 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 worship worship VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 26 before before ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 35 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 36 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **take away** | present · perfect | the same Hezekiah | Hezekiah's high places and Hezekiah's altars | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 2 | **command** | past | the same Hezekiah *not said here* | Judah and Jerusalem | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent judah=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the same Hezekiah *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **worship** | shall | Ye | | | | before one altar | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **offer** | shall | ye | | | | | upon place | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | 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} הֲלֹא־הוּא֙ יְחִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ הֵסִ֥יר אֶת־בָּמֹתָ֖יו וְאֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָ֑יו וַיֹּ֨אמֶר לִֽיהוּדָ֤ה וְלִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לִפְנֵ֨י מִזְבֵּ֧חַ אֶחָ֛ד תִּֽשְׁתַּחֲו֖וּ וְעָלָ֥יו תַּקְטִֽירוּ׃ [2 Chronicles 32:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:743` 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 32:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.742/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 32:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.744/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 32:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.12/)