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title: 2 Kings 24:17 (JPS 1917) — And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah. Who acts: king. 2 Kings 24:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 24:17 · JPS 1917

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And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** make, change, name · **To what, where:** Mattaniah, stead, name, Zedekiah

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This is 2 Kings 24:17 · 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 (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:752
# text = And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Mattaniah	Mattaniah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Zedekiah	Zedekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the king of Babylon | Mattaniah |  | king's stead |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mattaniah=Product |
| 2 | **change** | past | the king of Babylon *not said here* | king's name | Zedekiah |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **name** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיַּמְלֵ֧ךְ מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֛ל אֶת־מַתַּנְיָ֥ה דֹד֖וֹ תַּחְתָּ֑יו וַיַּסֵּ֥ב אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃פ

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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:752` 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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