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title: 2 Chronicles 1:15 (JPS 1917) — And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore-trees that are in the Lowland, for abundance. Who acts: king, silver, cedars, sycamore trees. 2 Chronicles 1:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 1:15 · JPS 1917

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And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore-trees that are in the Lowland, for abundance.

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**Who acts:** king, silver, cedars, sycamore trees · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** silver, Jerusalem, cedars, Lowland

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This is 2 Chronicles 1:15 · 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 (king, silver, cedars, sycamore trees), 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:14
# text = And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore-trees that are in the Lowland, for abundance.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	cedars	cedar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	sycamore	sycamore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	xcomp	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Lowland	Lowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	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 | the king | silver and gold |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Product |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | silver and gold *not said here* |  |  | Jerusalem |  | as stones | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | king | cedars |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cedar=Product |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | cedars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the sycamore trees; for abundance | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the sycamore trees |  |  | the Lowland |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיִּתֵּ֨ן הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ אֶת־הַכֶּ֧סֶף וְאֶת־הַזָּהָ֛ב בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם כָּאֲבָנִ֑ים וְאֵ֣ת הָאֲרָזִ֗ים נָתַ֛ן כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥ים אֲשֶׁר־בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֖ה לָרֹֽב׃

[2 Chronicles 1:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.1.15/)

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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:14` of Mova's parse database.

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