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title: 2 Chronicles 7:16 (JPS 1917) — For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that My name may be t… · tree and pragmatics
description: For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that My name may be there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually. Who acts: I, name, eyes, My. 2 Chronicles 7:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 7:16 · JPS 1917

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For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that My name may be there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

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**Who acts:** I, name, eyes, My · **What happens:** choose, hallow, be, name · **To what, where:** house

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This is 2 Chronicles 7:16 · 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 (I, name, eyes, My), 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:154
# text = For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that My name may be there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hallowed	hallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	ccomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	Mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	conj	_	_
29	perpetually	perpetually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed hedge=0, polarity=none, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present · perfect | I | this house |  |  | now |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **hallow** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | may | My name |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | shall | Mine eyes and My heart |  |  |  |  | perpetually, there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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וְעַתָּ֗ה בָּחַ֤רְתִּי וְהִקְדַּ֙שְׁתִּי֙ אֶת־הַבַּ֣יִת הַזֶּ֔ה לִהְיוֹת־שְׁמִ֥י שָׁ֖ם עַד־עוֹלָ֑ם וְהָי֨וּ עֵינַ֧י וְלִבִּ֛י שָׁ֖ם כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃

[2 Chronicles 7:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.16/)

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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:154` 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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