--- title: 2 Chronicles 33:16 (JPS 1917) — And he built up the altar of the LORD, and offered thereon sacrifice… · tree and pragmatics description: And he built up the altar of the LORD, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel. 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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 (LORD), 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:786 # text = And he built up the altar of the LORD, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 thereon thereon ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 sacrifices sacrifice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 offerings offering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 thanksgiving thanksgiving NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **build up** | past | LORD | the altar of the LORD | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer altar=Patient | | 2 | **offer** | past | LORD *not said here* | sacrifices of peace offerings and thanksgiving | | | | thereon *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Theme | | 3 | **command** | past | LORD *not said here* | Judah | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent judah=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **serve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | LORD *not said here* | the LORD | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Attribute | | 5 | **sacrifice** | | | peace offerings and thanksgiving | | | | | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיִּ֙בֶן֙ אֶת־מִזְבַּ֣ח יְהוָ֔ה וַיִּזְבַּ֣ח עָלָ֔יו זִבְחֵ֥י שְׁלָמִ֖ים וְתוֹדָ֑ה וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לִֽיהוּדָ֔ה לַעֲב֕וֹד אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ [2 Chronicles 33:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.33.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:786` 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 33:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.785/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 33:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.787/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 33:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.33.16/)