--- title: 2 Kings 17:21 (JPS 1917) — For He rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam t… · tree and pragmatics description: For He rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drew Israel away from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 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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 (LORD, commandments, Jeroboam), 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:528 # text = For He rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drew Israel away from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rent rend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 Jeroboam Jeroboam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Nebat Nebat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Jeroboam Jeroboam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 from from SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 sin sin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **rend** | past | LORD | Israel | | the house of David | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent israel=Patient | | 2 | **make** | past | commandments *= commandment* | the son of Nebat | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset son=Product | | 3 | **king** | | Jeroboam | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **draw away** | past | Jeroboam | Israel | | | | away *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent israel=Theme | | 5 | **follow** | gerund | Jeroboam *not said here* | the LORD | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | | 6 | **make** | past | Jeroboam *not said here* | commandments *= commandment* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sin** | infinitive | commandments *= commandment* *not said here* | a great sin | | | | | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Theme | 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} כִּֽי־קָרַ֣ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל מֵעַל֙ בֵּ֣ית דָּוִ֔ד וַיַּמְלִ֖יכוּ אֶת־יָרָבְעָ֣ם בֶּן־נְבָ֑ט וַיַּדַּ֨ח יָרָבְעָ֤ם אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מֵאַחֲרֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וְהֶחֱטֵיאָ֖םחֲטָאָ֥ה גְדוֹלָֽה׃ [2 Kings 17:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:528` 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 17:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.527/) - next →: [2 Kings 17:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.529/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 17:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.21/)