--- title: 2 Kings 16:11 (JPS 1917) — And Urijah the priest built an altar; according to all that king Aha… · tree and pragmatics description: And Urijah the priest built an altar; according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus. Who acts: Urijah, king Ahaz. 2 Kings 16:11 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/neviim/jps/2KI.498/) [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/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/16/) / [16:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.11/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 16:11 · JPS 1917 And Urijah the priest built an altar; according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus. **Who acts:** Urijah, king Ahaz · **What happens:** build, accord, send, make · **To what, where:** altar, Damascus This is 2 Kings 16:11 · 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 (Urijah, king Ahaz), 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:498 # text = And Urijah the priest built an altar; according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 Urijah Urijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 case _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 13 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Ahaz Ahaz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Damascus Damascus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 22 Urijah Urijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 against against ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 coming come NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Ahaz Ahaz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Damascus Damascus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past | Urijah | a altar | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Product | | 2 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **send** | past · perfect | king Ahaz | | | Damascus | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent that=Theme from damascus=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **make** | past · do-support | Urijah | altar | | | | accord all; against the coming king Ahaz from Damascus | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | 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} וַיִּ֛בֶן אוּרִיָּ֥ה הַכֹּהֵ֖ן אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ כְּכֹ֣ל אֲשֶׁר־שָׁלַח֩ הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ אָחָ֜ז מִדַּמֶּ֗שֶׂק כֵּ֤ן עָשָׂה֙ אוּרִיָּ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֔ן עַד־בּ֥וֹא הַמֶּֽלֶךְ־אָחָ֖ז מִדַּמָּֽשֶׂק׃ [2 Kings 16:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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