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title: 2 Kings 24:20 (JPS 1917) — And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. · tree and pragmatics
description: And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. Who acts: Zedekiah. 2 Kings 24:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Kings 24:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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**Who acts:** Zedekiah · **What happens:** rebel

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This is 2 Kings 24:20 · 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 (Zedekiah), 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:756
# text = And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Zedekiah	Zedekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rebelled	rebel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **rebel** | past | Zedekiah |  |  |  |  | against the king of Babylon | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against king=Maleficiary |

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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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כִּ֣י ׀ עַל־אַ֣ף יְהוָ֗ה הָיְתָ֤ה בִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ וּבִ֣יהוּדָ֔ה עַד־הִשְׁלִכ֥וֹ אֹתָ֖ם מֵעַ֣ל פָּנָ֑יו וַיִּמְרֹ֥ד צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ בְּמֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶֽל׃ס

[2 Kings 24:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.24.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [For through the anger of the LORD did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until He had cast them out from His presence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.755/)
2. **And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.**

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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:756` 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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