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title: 2 Chronicles 6:18 (JPS 1917) — But will God in very truth dwell with men on the earth? behold, heav… · tree and pragmatics
description: But will God in very truth dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house which I have builded! Who acts: God, heaven, I. 2 Chronicles 6:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 6:18 · JPS 1917

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But will God in very truth dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house which I have builded!

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**Who acts:** God, heaven, I · **What happens:** dwell, not contain, build · **To what, where:** truth, Thee, house

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This is 2 Chronicles 6:18 · 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 (God, heaven, I), 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:113
# text = But will God in very truth dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house which I have builded!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	_	7	aux	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
14	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	_	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
25	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	builded	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | future | God |  |  | truth |  | with men; on the earth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in truth=Location |
| 2 | **not** **contain** | can | heaven and the heaven of heavens | Thee |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thou=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | present · perfect | I | this house |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product |

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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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כִּ֚י הַֽאֻמְנָ֔ם יֵשֵׁ֧ב אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָאָדָ֖ם עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ הִ֠נֵּה שָׁמַ֜יִם וּשְׁמֵ֤י הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ לֹ֣א יְכַלְכְּל֔וּךָ אַ֕ף כִּֽי־הַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנִֽיתִי׃

[2 Chronicles 6:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.6.18/)

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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:113` 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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