--- title: 2 Kings 17:28 (JPS 1917) — So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came a… · tree and pragmatics description: So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. Who acts: priests, one. 2 Kings 17:28 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.536/) [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/) / [17:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.28/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 17:28 · JPS 1917 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. **Who acts:** priests, one · **What happens:** carry away, come, dwell, teach, fear · **To what, where:** priests, Samaria, Beth el, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 17:28 · 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 (priests, one), 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:536 # text = So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 1 So so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 obj _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Samaria Samaria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 Beth Beth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 19 el El PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | **carry away** | past · perfect | priests *= priest* | the priests | | Samaria | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme from samaria=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **come** | past | one of the priests | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dwell** | past | one of the priests *not said here* | | | Beth el | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in el=Location | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | one of the priests *not said here* | | priests *= priest* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **fear** | should | priests *= priest* | the LORD | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus | 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} וַיָּבֹ֞א אֶחָ֣ד מֵהַכֹּהֲנִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר הִגְלוּ֙ מִשֹּׁ֣מְר֔וֹן וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּבֵֽית־אֵ֑לבֵֽית־אֵ֑ל וַֽיְהִי֙ מוֹרֶ֣ה אֹתָ֔ם אֵ֖יךְ יִֽירְא֥וּ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃ [2 Kings 17:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.28/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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