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title: 2 Kings 23:23 (JPS 1917) — but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to… · tree and pragmatics
description: but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to the LORD in Jerusalem. 2 Kings 23:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 23:23 · JPS 1917

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but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

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**What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** passover, Jerusalem

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This is 2 Kings 23:23 · 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: 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:720
# text = but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	eighteenth	eighteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Josiah	Josiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	passover	passover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **keep** | past · passive |  | this passover |  | Jerusalem |  | to the LORD; Josiah *obl:unmarked* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in jerusalem=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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כִּ֗י אִם־בִּשְׁמֹנֶ֤ה עֶשְׂרֵה֙ שָׁנָ֔ה לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ נַעֲשָׂ֞ה הַפֶּ֧סַח הַזֶּ֛ה לַיהוָ֖ה בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[2 Kings 23:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.23/)

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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:720` 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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