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title: 2 Kings 17:10 (JPS 1917) — and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and u… · tree and pragmatics
description: and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every leafy tree; Who acts: children. 2 Kings 17:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 17:10 · JPS 1917

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and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every leafy tree;

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** set up · **To what, where:** pillars, things, leafy tree

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This is 2 Kings 17:10 · 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 (children), 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:517
# text = and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Asherim	Asherim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	;	;	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 | **set up** | past | children *= child* | pillars and Asherim | things *= thing* | every leafy tree |  | upon every high hill | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme pillar=Destination |

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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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וַיַּצִּ֧בוּ לָהֶ֛ם מַצֵּב֖וֹת וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים עַ֚ל כָּל־גִּבְעָ֣ה גְבֹהָ֔ה וְתַ֖חַת כָּל־עֵ֥ץ רַעֲנָֽן׃

[2 Kings 17:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.10/)

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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:517` 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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