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title: 2 Chronicles 6:7 (JPS 1917) — Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 2 Chronicles 6:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 6:7 · JPS 1917

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Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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**What happens:** be, build, name · **To what, where:** heart, house, LORD

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This is 2 Chronicles 6:7 · 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: 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:102
# text = Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the heart | now | of David | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | to-infinitive |  | a house |  |  |  | for the name of the LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent house=Product for name=Asset |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַיְהִ֕י עִם־לְבַ֖ב דָּוִ֣יד אָבִ֑י לִבְנ֣וֹת בַּ֔יִת לְשֵׁ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[2 Chronicles 6:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.7/)

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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:102` 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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