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title: 2 Kings 11:18 (JPS 1917) — And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. Who acts: people, Baal. 2 Kings 11:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 11:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

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**Who acts:** people, Baal · **What happens:** go, break down, break, slay, image · **To what, where:** house, altars, pieces, Mattan

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This is 2 Kings 11:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (people, Baal), 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:2KI:359
# text = And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Baal	Baal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	altars	altar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	Mattan	Mattan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Baal	Baal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	before	before	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	altars	altar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **go** | past | all people of the land |  |  | the house of Baal |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **break down** | past | all people of the land *not said here* | house |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **break** | past | people | Baal's altars and Baal's images |  | pieces |  | thoroughly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer altar=Patient |
| 4 | **slay** | past | people *not said here* | Mattan |  |  | before the altars |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mattan=Patient |
| 5 | **image** |  | Baal |  |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ כָל־עַם֩ הָאָ֨רֶץ בֵּית־הַבַּ֜עַל וַֽיִּתְּצֻ֗הוּ אֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָ֤יו וְאֶת־צְלָמָיו֙ שִׁבְּר֣וּ הֵיטֵ֔ב וְאֵ֗ת מַתָּן֙ כֹּהֵ֣ן הַבַּ֔עַל הָרְג֖וּ לִפְנֵ֣י הַֽמִּזְבְּח֑וֹת וַיָּ֧שֶׂם הַכֹּהֵ֛ן פְּקֻדּ֖וֹת עַל־בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃

[2 Kings 11:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.**
2. [And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.360/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:359` of Mova's parse database.

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