--- title: 2 Kings 17:35 (JPS 1917) — with whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying: 'Y… · tree and pragmatics description: with whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying: 'Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them; Who acts: LORD, Ye. 2 Kings 17:35 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.543/) [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/) / [17:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.35/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 17:35 · JPS 1917 with whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying: 'Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them; **Who acts:** LORD, Ye · **What happens:** make, charge, say, not fear, bow down, serve · **To what, where:** covenant, Avvites, other gods · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 17:35 · 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 (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:543 # text = with whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying: 'Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them; 1 with with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 charged charge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 17 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 25 cc _ _ 25 bow bow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 26 down down ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 31 cc _ _ 31 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 35 cc _ _ 35 sacrifice sacrifice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · perfect | the LORD | a covenant | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covenant=Product | | 2 | **charge** | past | the LORD *not said here* | Avvites *= avvite* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the LORD *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **fear** | shall | Ye | other gods | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus | | 5 | **bow down** | infinitive | Ye *not said here* | | Avvites *= avvite* | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme | | 6 | **serve** | infinitive | Ye *not said here* | Avvites *= avvite* | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute | | 7 | **sacrifice** | infinitive | Ye *not said here* | | Avvites *= avvite* | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | 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} וַיִּכְרֹ֨ת יְהוָ֤ה אִתָּם֙ בְּרִ֔ית וַיְצַוֵּ֣ם לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹ֥א תִֽירְא֖וּ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֑ים וְלֹא־תִשְׁתַּחֲו֣וּ לָהֶ֔ם וְלֹ֣א תַעַבְד֔וּם וְלֹ֥א תִזְבְּח֖וּ לָהֶֽם׃ [2 Kings 17:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.35/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:543` 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 17:34 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.542/) - next →: [2 Kings 17:36 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.544/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 17:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.35/)