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title: 2 Chronicles 34:31 (JPS 1917) — And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. Who acts: king, Jerusalem
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# 2 Chronicles 34:31 · JPS 1917

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And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

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**Who acts:** king, Jerusalem · **What happens:** stand, make, walk, keep, perform, write · **To what, where:** place, covenant, commandments, words, book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 34:31 · 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 (king, Jerusalem), 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:826
# text = And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
26	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	testimonies	testimony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl:relcl	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	60	det	_	_
60	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **stand** | past | the king |  |  | Jerusalem's place |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 2 | **make** | past | the king *not said here* | a covenant |  |  | before the LORD |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset covenant=Product |
| 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  | after the LORD |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | Jerusalem's commandments and Jerusalem's testimonies and Jerusalem's statutes |  |  |  | with Jerusalem's heart and Jerusalem's soul | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme |
| 5 | **perform** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the words of the covenant |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 6 | **write** | past · passive |  | the covenant |  | this book |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination |
| 7 | **command** |  | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **testify** |  | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  |  | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **word** |  |  | the covenant |  |  |  |  | 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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וַיַּעֲמֹ֨ד הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ עַל־עָמְד֗וֹ וַיִּכְרֹ֣ת אֶֽת־הַבְּרִית֮ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָה֒ לָלֶ֜כֶת אַחֲרֵ֣י יְהוָ֗ה וְלִשְׁמ֤וֹר אֶת־מִצְוֺתָיו֙ וְעֵֽדְוֺתָ֣יו וְחֻקָּ֔יו בְּכָל־לְבָב֖וֹ וּבְכָל־נַפְשׁ֑וֹ לַעֲשׂוֹת֙ אֶת־דִּבְרֵ֣י הַבְּרִ֔ית הַכְּתוּבִ֖ים עַל־הַסֵּ֥פֶר הַזֶּֽה׃

[2 Chronicles 34:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.31/)

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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:826` of Mova's parse database.

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