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title: 2 Kings 21:3 (JPS 1917) — For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had des… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Kings 21:3 · JPS 1917

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For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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**Who acts:** LORD, Hezekiah · **What happens:** build, destroy, rear up, make, worship, serve · **To what, where:** high places, altars, Asherah, host

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This is 2 Kings 21:3 · 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, Hezekiah), 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:654
# text = For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
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	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
9	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	reared	rear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	altars	altar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Baal	Baal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Asherah	Asherah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	Ahab	Ahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	worshipped	worship	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **build** | past | LORD | the high places |  |  | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Product |
| 2 | **destroy** | past · perfect | Hezekiah | the high places |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 3 | **rear up** | past | LORD | altars |  |  |  | for Baal | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | LORD *not said here* | a Asherah |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset asherah=Product |
| 5 | **worship** | past | LORD *not said here* | all host of heaven |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer host=Stimulus |
| 6 | **serve** | past | LORD *not said here* | altars *= altar* |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute |

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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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וַיָּ֗שָׁב וַיִּ֙בֶן֙ אֶת־הַבָּמ֔וֹת אֲשֶׁ֥ר אִבַּ֖ד חִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ אָבִ֑יו וַיָּ֨קֶם מִזְבְּחֹ֜ת לַבַּ֗עַל וַיַּ֤עַשׂ אֲשֵׁרָה֙ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֗ה אַחְאָב֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיִּשְׁתַּ֙חוּ֙ לְכָל־צְבָ֣א הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֖ד אֹתָֽם׃

[2 Kings 21:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.21.3/)

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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:654` of Mova's parse database.

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