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title: 2 Kings 17:33 (JPS 1917) — They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of… · tree and pragmatics
description: They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. Who acts: Avvites. 2 Kings 17:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 17:33 · JPS 1917

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They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

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**Who acts:** Avvites · **What happens:** fear, serve, carry away · **To what, where:** LORD, own gods, Avvites, nations

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This is 2 Kings 17:33 · 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 (Avvites), 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:541
# text = They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | Avvites *= avvite* | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus |
| 2 | **serve** | past | Avvites *= avvite* *not said here* | Avvites's own gods |  |  | after the manner of the nations |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute |
| 3 | **carry away** | past · perfect · passive |  | Avvites *= avvite* |  | the nations |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from whom=Initial\_Location |

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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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אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה הָי֣וּ יְרֵאִ֑ים וְאֶת־אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶם֙ הָי֣וּ עֹֽבְדִ֔ים כְּמִשְׁפַּט֙ הַגּוֹיִ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־הִגְל֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם מִשָּֽׁם׃

[2 Kings 17:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.33/)

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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:541` 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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