2 Chronicles 34:3 · JPS 1917

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.

Who acts: Josiah · What happens: be, begin, seek, purge · To what, where: Judah

This is 2 Chronicles 34:3 · 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), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	17 began	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 year	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 year	det
4	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 year	amod
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 reign	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 reign	nmod:poss
8	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 year	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 year	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 young	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 young	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 young	cop
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 young	advmod
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 began	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 seek	mark
19	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	after	after	ADP	_	22 God	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 God	det
22	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 seek	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 David	case
24	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 God	nmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 David	appos
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 began	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 began	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 year	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 year	det
31	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 year	amod
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 began	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 began	nsubj
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 began	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 purge	mark
36	purge	purge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 began	xcomp
37	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 purge	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Jerusalem	cc
39	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Judah	conj
40	from	from	ADP	_	43 places	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 places	det
42	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 places	amod
43	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 purge	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Asherim	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 Asherim	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Asherim	det
47	Asherim	Asherim	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 places	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 images	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 images	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 images	det
51	graven	graven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 images	amod
52	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 Asherim	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 images	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 images	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 images	det
56	molten	molten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 images	amod
57	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 images	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Josiah		yet	young property	tree rules
2	begin	past	Josiah		year		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	seek	to-infinitive	Josiah not said here		after the God of David		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	Josiah		year		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	purge	to-infinitive	Josiah not said here	Judah and Jerusalem		from the high places and the Asherim and the graven images and the molten images	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer judah=Source from place=Theme

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

וּבִשְׁמוֹנֶ֨ה שָׁנִ֜ים לְמָלְכ֗וֹ וְהוּא֙ עוֹדֶ֣נּוּ נַ֔עַר הֵחֵ֕ל לִדְר֕וֹשׁ לֵאלֹהֵ֖י דָּוִ֣יד אָבִ֑יו וּבִשְׁתֵּ֧ים עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה שָׁנָ֗ה הֵחֵל֙ לְטַהֵ֔ר אֶת־יְהוּדָה֙ וִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם מִן־הַבָּמוֹת֙ וְהָ֣אֲשֵׁרִ֔ים וְהַפְּסִלִ֖ים וְהַמַּסֵּכֽוֹת׃

2 Chronicles 34:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2CH:798 of Mova's parse database.

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