2 Kings 23:20 · JPS 1917

And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

Who acts: Josiah, high places · What happens: slay, be, burn, return · To what, where: priests, bones, Jerusalem

This is 2 Kings 23:20 · 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, high places), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 slew	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slew	nsubj
3	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 priests	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priests	det
6	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slew	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 places	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 places	det
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 places	amod
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 priests	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 there	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 there	cop
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 places	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 altars	punct
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 altars	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 altars	det
17	altars	altar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 priests	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burned	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 burned	cc
20	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slew	conj
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bones	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 men	case
23	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 burned	obj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 burned	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 returned	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 returned	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 returned	nsubj
29	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slew	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Jerusalem	case
31	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 returned	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slew	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	slay	past	Josiah	all priests of the high places		upon the altars	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Patient
2	is	past	the high places			there property	tree rules
3	burn	past	Josiah not said here	men's bones		upon men = man	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
4	return	past	Josiah		Jerusalem		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to jerusalem=Result

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

וַ֠יִּזְבַּח אֶת־כָּל־כֹּהֲנֵ֨י הַבָּמ֤וֹת אֲשֶׁר־שָׁם֙ עַל־הַֽמִּזְבְּח֔וֹת וַיִּשְׂרֹ֛ף אֶת־עַצְמ֥וֹת אָדָ֖ם עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וַיָּ֖שָׁב יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

2 Kings 23:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2KI:717 of Mova's parse database.

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