--- title: 2 Kings 23:2 (JPS 1917) — And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and all the men of Ju… · tree and pragmatics description: And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.699/) [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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/23/) / [23:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.2/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 23:2 · JPS 1917 And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD. **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** go up, read, find, word · **To what, where:** words, ears, covenant, house, book This is 2 Kings 23:2 · 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 (king), 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:699 # text = And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 both both CCONJ CC _ 42 cc:preconj _ _ 42 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ _ 45 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 52 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 54 det:predet _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nmod _ _ 61 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 63 nsubj:pass _ _ 62 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 63 aux:pass _ _ 63 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 60 acl:relcl _ _ 64 in in ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 nmod _ _ 70 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | past | the king | | | | | to the house of the LORD | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **read** | past | king | all words of the book of the covenant | | people's ears | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 3 | **find** | past · passive | | the covenant | | the house of the LORD | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **word** | | | the book of the covenant | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיַּ֣עַל הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ בֵּית־יְהוָ֡ה וְכָל־אִ֣ישׁ יְהוּדָה֩ וְכָל־יֹשְׁבֵ֨י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם אִתּ֗וֹ וְהַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙ וְהַנְּבִיאִ֔ים וְכָל־הָעָ֖ם לְמִקָּטֹ֣ן וְעַד־גָּד֑וֹל וַיִּקְרָ֣א בְאָזְנֵיהֶ֗ם אֶת־כָּל־דִּבְרֵי֙ סֵ֣פֶר הַבְּרִ֔ית הַנִּמְצָ֖א בְּבֵ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃ [2 Kings 23:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:699` 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 23:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.698/) - next →: [2 Kings 23:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.700/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 23:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.2/)