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title: 2 Chronicles 6:17 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, let Thy word be verified,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, let Thy word be verified, which Thou spokest unto Thy servant David. Who acts: you, word, Thou, Thy. 2 Chronicles 6:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 6:17 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, let Thy word be verified, which Thou spokest unto Thy servant David.

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**Who acts:** you, word, Thou, Thy · **What happens:** let, verify, speak, word · **To what, where:** word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 6:17 · 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 (you, word, Thou, Thy), 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:112
# text = Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, let Thy word be verified, which Thou spokest unto Thy servant David.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	verified	verify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	spokest	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy word |  |  | now | LORD *vocative*; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **verify** | infinitive · passive | Thy word *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Thou | Thy word |  |  |  | unto Thy servant | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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וְעַתָּ֕ה יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יֵֽאָמֵן֙ דְּבָ֣רְךָ֔ אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ לְעַבְדְּךָ֥ לְדָוִֽיד׃

[2 Chronicles 6:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.17/)

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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:112` 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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