--- title: 2 Kings 17:29 (JPS 1917) — Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the hou… · tree and pragmatics description: Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. Who acts: nation, Samaritans. 2 Kings 17:29 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.537/) [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/) / [17:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.29/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 17:29 · JPS 1917 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. **Who acts:** nation, Samaritans · **What happens:** make, put, dwell · **To what, where:** gods, nations, houses, high places This is 2 Kings 17:29 · 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 (nation, Samaritans), 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:537 # text = Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. 1 Howbeit howbeit ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own PRON JJ Number=Sing|PronType=Prs 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 obj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Samaritans samaritan PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 . . 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 | **make** | past | every nation | gods of own | | | | howbeit *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset god=Product | | 2 | **put** | past | every nation *not said here* | nations *= nation* | | the houses of the high places | | every nation in nations's cities *obl:unmarked* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in house=Destination | | 3 | **make** | past · perfect | the Samaritans | the high places | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product | | 4 | **dwell** | past | Samaritans *= samaritan* | | | | | wherein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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} וַיִּהְי֣וּ עֹשִׂ֔ים גּ֥וֹי גּ֖וֹי אֱלֹהָ֑יו וַיַּנִּ֣יחוּ ׀ בְּבֵ֣ית הַבָּמ֗וֹת אֲשֶׁ֤ר עָשׂוּ֙ הַשֹּׁ֣מְרֹנִ֔ים גּ֥וֹי גּוֹי֙ בְּעָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֛ר הֵ֥ם יֹשְׁבִ֖ים שָֽׁם׃ [2 Kings 17:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.29/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:537` 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 17:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.536/) - next →: [2 Kings 17:30 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.538/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 17:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.29/)