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title: 2 Kings 23:30 (JPS 1917) — And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anoi… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. Who acts: people. 2 Kings 23:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 23:30 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** take, anoint, make · **To what, where:** Jehoahaz

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This is 2 Kings 23:30 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (people), 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:728
# text = And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Jehoahaz	Jehoahaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Josiah	Josiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	anointed	anoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the people of the land |  | Jehoahaz |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument jehoahaz=Destination |
| 2 | **anoint** | past | the people of the land *not said here* | Jehoahaz |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 3 | **make** | past | the people of the land *not said here* | Jehoahaz |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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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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וַיַּרְכִּבֻ֨הוּ עֲבָדָ֥יו מֵת֙ מִמְּגִדּ֔וֹ וַיְבִאֻ֙הוּ֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וַֽיִּקְבְּרֻ֖הוּ בִּקְבֻֽרָת֑וֹ וַיִּקַּ֣ח עַם־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֶת־יְהֽוֹאָחָז֙ בֶּן־יֹ֣אשִׁיָּ֔הוּ וַיִּמְשְׁח֥וּ אֹת֛וֹ וַיַּמְלִ֥יכוּ אֹת֖וֹ תַּ֥חַת אָבִֽיו׃פ

[2 Kings 23:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.30/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.727/)
2. **And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.**

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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:728` 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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