--- title: 2 Chronicles 34:16 (JPS 1917) — And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back… · tree and pragmatics description: And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word unto the king, saying: 'All that was committed to thy servants, they do it. Who acts: Shaphan. 2 Chronicles 34:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.811/) [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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/34/) / [34:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.16/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 34:16 · JPS 1917 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word unto the king, saying: 'All that was committed to thy servants, they do it. **Who acts:** Shaphan · **What happens:** carry, bring back, say, commit, do · **To what, where:** book, king, word, servants · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Chronicles 34:16 · 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 (Shaphan), 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:811 # text = And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word unto the king, saying: 'All that was committed to thy servants, they do it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Shaphan Shaphan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 moreover moreover ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 unto unto ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 22 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 dep _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 committed commit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past | Shaphan | the book | the king | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme to king=Destination | | 2 | **bring back** | past | Shaphan *not said here* | word | | | | unto the king; moreover *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Shaphan *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **commit** | past · passive | | | | thy servants | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to servant=Destination | | 5 | **do** | present | Shaphan | book | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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} וַיָּבֵ֨א שָׁפָ֤ן אֶת־הַסֵּ֙פֶר֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַיָּ֨שֶׁב ע֧וֹד אֶת־הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ דָּבָ֖ר לֵאמֹ֑ר כֹּ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־נִתַּ֥ן בְּיַד־עֲבָדֶ֖יךָ הֵ֥ם עֹשִֽׂים׃ [2 Chronicles 34:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:811` 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 34:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.810/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 34:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.812/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 34:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.16/)