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title: 2 Kings 17:12 (JPS 1917) — and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shal… · tree and pragmatics
description: and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shall not do this thing'; Who acts: children, LORD, Ye. 2 Kings 17:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 17:12 · JPS 1917

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and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shall not do this thing';

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**Who acts:** children, LORD, Ye · **What happens:** serve, say, not do · **To what, where:** idols, thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Kings 17:12 · 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, LORD, Ye), 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:519
# text = and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shall not do this thing';
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	idols	idol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	whereof	whereof	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past | children *= child* | idols |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idol=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto children *= child* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **do** | shall | Ye | this thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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וַיַּֽעַבְד֖וּ הַגִּלֻּלִ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ לָהֶ֔ם לֹ֥א תַעֲשׂ֖וּ אֶת־הַדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃

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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:519` 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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