--- title: 2 Kings 17:11 (JPS 1917) — and there they offered in all the high places, as did the nations wh… · tree and pragmatics description: and there they offered in all the high places, as did the nations whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD; Who acts: children, nations, LORD. 2 Kings 17:11 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.518/) [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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/17/) / [17:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.11/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 17:11 · JPS 1917 and there they offered in all the high places, as did the nations whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD; **Who acts:** children, nations, LORD · **What happens:** offer, do, carry away, work, provoke · **To what, where:** high places, nations, wicked things, LORD This is 2 Kings 17:11 · 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 (children, nations, LORD), 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:518 # text = and there they offered in all the high places, as did the nations whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD; 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 15 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 before before ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 wrought work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 provoke provoke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 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 | **offer** | past | children *= child* | | | all high places; there | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | past | the nations | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry away** | past | the LORD | the nations | | | before children *= child* | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | | 4 | **work** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | wicked things | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent thing=Material | | 5 | **provoke** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | the LORD | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lord=Experiencer | 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} וַיְקַטְּרוּ־שָׁם֙ בְּכָל־בָּמ֔וֹת כַּגּוֹיִ֕ם אֲשֶׁר־הֶגְלָ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם וַֽיַּעֲשׂוּ֙ דְּבָרִ֣ים רָעִ֔ים לְהַכְעִ֖יס אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃ [2 Kings 17:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:518` 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. - ← previous: [2 Kings 17:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.517/) - next →: [2 Kings 17:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.519/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 17:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.11/)