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title: 2 Chronicles 34:7 (JPS 1917) — And he broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven im… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem. Who acts: Josiah. 2 Chronicles 34:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 34:7 · JPS 1917

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And he broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** Josiah · **What happens:** break down, beat, hew down, return · **To what, where:** altars, Asherim, powder, sun images, Jerusalem

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This is 2 Chronicles 34:7 · 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 (Josiah), 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:802
# text = And he broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
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	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	altars	altar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Asherim	Asherim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	graven	graven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hewed	hew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
27	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **break down** | past | Josiah | the altars |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Patient |
| 2 | **beat** | past | Josiah *not said here* | the Asherim and the graven images |  | powder |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent asherim=Patient into powder=Recipient |
| 3 | **hew down** | past | Josiah *not said here* | all sun images |  |  | throughout all land of Israel |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Patient |
| 4 | **return** | past | Josiah *not said here* |  | Jerusalem |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to jerusalem=Result |

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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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וַיְנַתֵּ֣ץ אֶת־הַֽמִּזְבְּח֗וֹת וְאֶת־הָאֲשֵׁרִ֤ים וְהַפְּסִלִים֙ כִּתַּ֣ת לְהֵדַ֔ק וְכָל־הַֽחַמָּנִ֥ים גִּדַּ֖ע בְּכָל־אֶ֣רֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיָּ֖שָׁב לִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס

[2 Chronicles 34:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.7/)

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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:802` 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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