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title: 2 Chronicles 6:5 (JPS 1917) — Since the day that I brought forth My people out of the land of Egyp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Since the day that I brought forth My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that My name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over My people Israel; Who acts: I, name, My. 2 Chronicles 6:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency
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# 2 Chronicles 6:5 · JPS 1917

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Since the day that I brought forth My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that My name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over My people Israel;

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**Who acts:** I, name, My · **What happens:** bring, choose, build, be, name · **To what, where:** day, land, city, tribes, house, man

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This is 2 Chronicles 6:5 · 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 (I, name, My), 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:2CH:100
# text = Since the day that I brought forth My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that My name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over My people Israel;
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
39	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advcl	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
41	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	42	cc	_	_
42	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
44	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	det	_	_
45	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	cop	_	_
48	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	xcomp	_	_
49	over	over	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
52	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	appos	_	_
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	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 | **bring** | past | I | the day |  | the land of Egypt |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme people=Destination |
| 2 | **choose** | past | I | no city |  | all tribes of Israel | day |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a house |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
| 4 | **is** | might | My name |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **choose** | past | I | any man |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | prince |  |  |  | over My people | tree rules |
| 7 | **name** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | 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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מִן־הַיּ֗וֹם אֲשֶׁ֨ר הוֹצֵ֣אתִי אֶת־עַמִּי֮ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַיִם֒ לֹא־בָחַ֣רְתִּֽי בְעִ֗יר מִכֹּל֙ שִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לִבְנ֣וֹת בַּ֔יִת לִהְי֥וֹת שְׁמִ֖י שָׁ֑ם וְלֹא־בָחַ֣רְתִּֽי בְאִ֔ישׁ לִהְי֥וֹת נָגִ֖יד עַל־עַמִּ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[2 Chronicles 6:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.5/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:100` 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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