--- title: 2 Kings 23:17 (JPS 1917) — Then he said: 'What monument is that which I see?' And the men of th… · tree and pragmatics description: Then he said: 'What monument is that which I see?' And the men of the city told him: 'It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.' Who acts: Josiah, monument, I, men. 2 Kings 23:17 in JPS 1917 with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.714/) [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/) / [23:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.17/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 23:17 · JPS 1917 Then he said: 'What monument is that which I see?' And the men of the city told him: 'It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.' **Who acts:** Josiah, monument, I, men, man, thou · **What happens:** say, be, see, tell, come, proclaim · **To what, where:** that, Josiah, sepulchre, Judah, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 23:17 · 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 (Josiah, monument, I, men), 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:714 # text = Then he said: 'What monument is that which I see?' And the men of the city told him: 'It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 7 det _ _ 7 monument monument NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 ccomp _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obj _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 15 And and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 25 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sepulchre sepulchre NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 proclaimed proclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 42 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 43 det _ _ 43 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 obj _ _ 45 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 47 nsubj _ _ 46 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 acl:relcl _ _ 48 against against ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 Beth Beth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 54 punct _ _ 54 el El PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 56 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Josiah | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | what monument | that | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the men of the city | | Josiah | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** | present | monument | the sepulchre | | | | of the man of God | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | past | the man of God | | | Judah | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from judah=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **proclaim** | past | the man of God *not said here* | this things | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 8 | **do** | present · perfect | thou | this things | | | | against the altar of Beth el | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | 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} וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מָ֚ה הַצִּיּ֣וּן הַלָּ֔ז אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֲנִ֣י רֹאֶ֑ה וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ אֵלָ֜יו אַנְשֵׁ֣י הָעִ֗יר הַקֶּ֤בֶר אִישׁ־הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֣א מִֽיהוּדָ֔ה וַיִּקְרָ֗א אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֤ים הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֔יתָ עַ֖ל הַמִּזְבַּ֥ח בֵּֽית־אֵֽלבֵּֽית־אֵֽל׃ [2 Kings 23:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:714` 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 23:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.713/) - next →: [2 Kings 23:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.715/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 23:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.17/)