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title: 2 Kings 12:7 (JPS 1917) — But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash… · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. Who acts: it, priests. 2 Kings 12:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 12:7 · JPS 1917

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But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

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**Who acts:** it, priests · **What happens:** be, not repair, breach · **To what, where:** breaches, house

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This is 2 Kings 12:7 · 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 (it, priests), 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:370
# text = But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Jehoash	Jehoash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	repaired	repair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	csubj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	breaches	breach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **repair** | past · perfect | the priests | the breaches of the house |  |  | year |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent breach=Patient |
| 3 | **breach** |  |  | the house |  |  |  |  | nom breach «act 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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וַיְהִ֗י בִּשְׁנַ֨ת עֶשְׂרִ֧ים וְשָׁלֹ֛שׁ שָׁנָ֖ה לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ יְהוֹאָ֑שׁ לֹֽא־חִזְּק֥וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים אֶת־בֶּ֥דֶק הַבָּֽיִת׃

[2 Kings 12:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.7/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:370` 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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