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title: 2 Chronicles 6:13 (JPS 1917) — for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits long, and fiv… · tree and pragmatics
description: for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven — Who acts: Solom
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# 2 Chronicles 6:13 · JPS 1917

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for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven —

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**Who acts:** Solomon · **What happens:** make, set, stand, kneel down, spread · **To what, where:** brazen scaffold, scaffold, midst, court, knees, hands

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This is 2 Chronicles 6:13 · 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 (Solomon), 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:108
# text = for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven —
1	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	kneeled	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
43	down	down	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
47	before	before	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	50	det:predet	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
56	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	_
59	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
61	—	-	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 | **make** | past · perfect | Solomon | a brazen scaffold |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scaffold=Product |
| 2 | **set** | past · perfect | Solomon *not said here* | scaffold |  | the midst of the court |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in midst=Destination |
| 3 | **stand** | past | Solomon |  |  | court |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location |
| 4 | **kneel down** | past | Solomon *not said here* |  |  | LORD's knees | before all congregation of Israel | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon knee=Location |
| 5 | **spread** | past | Solomon *not said here* | LORD's hands |  |  |  | toward heaven; forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |

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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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כִּֽי־עָשָׂ֨ה שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה כִּיּ֣וֹר נְחֹ֗שֶׁת וַֽיִּתְּנֵהוּ֮ בְּת֣וֹךְ הָעֲזָרָה֒ חָמֵ֨שׁ אַמּ֜וֹת אָרְכּ֗וֹ וְחָמֵ֤שׁ אַמּוֹת֙ רָחְבּ֔וֹ וְאַמּ֥וֹת שָׁל֖וֹשׁ קוֹמָת֑וֹ וַיַּעֲמֹ֣ד עָלָ֗יו וַיִּבְרַ֤ךְ עַל־בִּרְכָּיו֙ נֶ֚גֶד כָּל־קְהַ֣ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיִּפְרֹ֥שׂ כַּפָּ֖יו הַשָּׁמָֽיְמָה׃

[2 Chronicles 6:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.13/)

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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:108` of Mova's parse database.

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