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title: 2 Chronicles 6:6 (JPS 1917) — but I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name might be there; and have c… · tree and pragmatics
description: but I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name might be there; and have chosen David to be over My people Israel. Who acts: I, name, My. 2 Chronicles 6:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 6:6 · JPS 1917

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but I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name might be there; and have chosen David to be over My people Israel.

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**Who acts:** I, name, My · **What happens:** choose, be, name · **To what, where:** Jerusalem, David

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This is 2 Chronicles 6:6 · 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:101
# text = but I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name might be there; and have chosen David to be over My people Israel.
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	there	there	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
17	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	xcomp	_	_
23	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **choose** | present · perfect | I | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerusalem=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | might | My name |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **choose** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | David |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent david=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over My people | tree rules |
| 5 | **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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וָאֶבְחַר֙ בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם לִהְי֥וֹת שְׁמִ֖י שָׁ֑ם וָאֶבְחַ֣ר בְּדָוִ֔יד לִהְי֖וֹת עַל־עַמִּ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[2 Chronicles 6:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.6/)

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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:101` 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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