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title: 2 Kings 16:16 (JPS 1917) — Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. Who acts: Urijah, king Ahaz. 2 Kings 16:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 16:16 · JPS 1917

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Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

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**Who acts:** Urijah, king Ahaz · **What happens:** do, accord, command · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 16:16 · 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:503
# text = Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Urijah	Urijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Ahaz	Ahaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Urijah |  |  |  |  | accord all; thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **command** | past | king Ahaz |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

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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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וַיַּ֖עַשׂ אוּרִיָּ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֑ן כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֖ה הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ אָחָֽז׃

[2 Kings 16:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.16/)

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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:503` 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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