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title: 2 Kings 12:3 (JPS 1917) — And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD all his… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. Who acts: Jehoash, Jehoiada. 2 Kings 12:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 12:3 · JPS 1917

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And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

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**Who acts:** Jehoash, Jehoiada · **What happens:** do, be, instruct · **To what, where:** that, eyes, Jehoash

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This is 2 Kings 12:3 · 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 (Jehoash, Jehoiada), 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:366
# text = And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jehoash	Jehoash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	Jehoiada	Jehoiada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **do** | past | Jehoash | that |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the eyes of the LORD |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past | Jehoiada |  | Jehoash |  |  | wherein *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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וַיַּ֨עַשׂ יְהוֹאָ֧שׁ הַיָּשָׁ֛ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה כָּל־יָמָ֑יו אֲשֶׁ֣ר הוֹרָ֔הוּ יְהוֹיָדָ֖ע הַכֹּהֵֽן׃

[2 Kings 12:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.3/)

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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:366` 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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