--- title: 2 Chronicles 2:17 — And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work. 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The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — David — and what happens in the verse to threescore ten thousand, burdens, hewers, mountains, people, work, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 36 chapters of 2 Chronicles on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיַּ֨עַשׂ מֵהֶ֜ם שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֙לֶף֙ סַבָּ֔ל וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף חֹצֵ֣ב בָּהָ֑ר וּשְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת אֲלָפִים֙ וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מֵא֔וֹת מְנַצְּחִ֖ים לְהַעֲבִ֥יד אֶת־הָעָֽם׃ [And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.35/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:2CH:34 # text = וַיַּ֨עַשׂ מֵהֶ֜ם שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֙לֶף֙ סַבָּ֔ל וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף חֹצֵ֣ב בָּהָ֑ר וּשְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת אֲלָפִים֙ וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מֵא֔וֹת מְנַצְּחִ֖ים לְהַעֲבִ֥יד אֶת־הָעָֽם׃ # verse = 2CH.2.17 1-2 וַיַּ֨עַשׂ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_2:17!1|MId=o140020170011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּ֨עַשׂ עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.appointed|Ref=2CH_2:17!1|MId=o140020170012|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:140020160021;A1:140020170041;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 מֵהֶ֜ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=of|Ref=2CH_2:17!2|MId=o140020170021|Strong=4480 4 הֶ֜ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=2CH_2:17!2|MId=o140020170022|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 5 שִׁבְעִ֥ים שֶׁבַע NUM _ Number=Plur 2 obj _ Gloss=seventy|Ref=2CH_2:17!3|MId=o140020170031|Strong=7657|Type=cardinal_number 6 אֶ֙לֶף֙ אֶלֶף NUM _ Number=Sing 5 flat _ Gloss=thousand|Ref=2CH_2:17!4|MId=o140020170041|Strong=0505|Type=cardinal_number 7 סַבָּ֔ל סַבָּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ Gloss=burden-bearer[s]|Ref=2CH_2:17!5|MId=o140020170051|Strong=5449 8-9 וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_2:17!6|MId=o140020170061|Strong=2050b 9 שְׁמֹנִ֥ים שְׁמֹנֶה NUM _ Number=Plur 2 conj _ Gloss=eighty|Ref=2CH_2:17!6|MId=o140020170062|Strong=8084|Type=cardinal_number 10 אֶ֖לֶף אֶלֶף NUM _ Number=Sing 9 flat _ Gloss=thousand|Ref=2CH_2:17!7|MId=o140020170071|Strong=0505|Type=cardinal_number 11 חֹצֵ֣ב חָצַב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ Gloss=stonemason[s]|Ref=2CH_2:17!8|MId=o140020170081|Strong=2672b|Type=participle_active 12-14 בָּהָ֑ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 בָּ בְּ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=2CH_2:17!9|MId=o140020170091|Strong=0871a 13 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 14 det _ Gloss=the.hill|Ref=2CH_2:17!9|MId=o140020170091ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 14 הָ֑ר הַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 nmod _ Gloss=country|Ref=2CH_2:17!9|MId=o140020170092|Strong=2022 15-16 וּשְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_2:17!10|MId=o140020170101|Strong=2050b 16 שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת שָׁלֹשׁ NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 conj _ Gloss=three|Ref=2CH_2:17!10|MId=o140020170102|Strong=7969|Type=cardinal_number 17 אֲלָפִים֙ אֶלֶף NUM _ Number=Plur 16 flat _ Gloss=thousand(s)|Ref=2CH_2:17!11|MId=o140020170111|Strong=0505|Type=cardinal_number 18-19 וְשֵׁ֣שׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_2:17!12|MId=o140020170121|Strong=2050b 19 שֵׁ֣שׁ שֵׁשׁ NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 conj _ Gloss=six|Ref=2CH_2:17!12|MId=o140020170122|Strong=8337|Type=cardinal_number 20 מֵא֔וֹת מֵאָה NUM _ Number=Plur 19 flat _ Gloss=hundred(s)|Ref=2CH_2:17!13|MId=o140020170131|Strong=3967|Type=cardinal_number 21 מְנַצְּחִ֖ים נָצַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur 16 xcomp _ Gloss=overseers|Ref=2CH_2:17!14|MId=o140020170141|Strong=5329|Type=participle_active 22-23 לְהַעֲבִ֥יד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 23 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_2:17!15|MId=o140020170151|Strong=3807a 23 הַעֲבִ֥יד עָבַד VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 21 advcl _ Gloss=compel.to.labor|Ref=2CH_2:17!15|MId=o140020170152|Strong=5647|Frame=A0:140020170172;AA:140020170141;|Type=infinitive_construct 24 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 26 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=2CH_2:17!16|MId=o140020170161|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 25-26 הָעָֽם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 25 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 26 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=2CH_2:17!17|MId=o140020170171|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 26 עָֽם עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 23 obj _ Gloss=people|Ref=2CH_2:17!17|MId=o140020170172|Strong=5971 27 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 26 punct _ Ref=2CH_2:17!17 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּעַשׂ *he appointed* | wayyiqtol · qal | | אֶלֶף *thousand* | | | | הַעֲבִיד *compel to labor* | infinitive construct · hiphil | עָֽם *people* | | | מְנַצְּחִים *overseers* | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.35/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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