--- title: 2 Chronicles 7:21 (JPS 1917) — And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall… · tree and pragmatics description: And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? Who acts: house, one, LORD. 2 Chronicles 7:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.159/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [2 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/) / [chapter 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/7/) / [7:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.21/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 7:21 · JPS 1917 And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? **Who acts:** house, one, LORD · **What happens:** be, pass, astonished, say, do · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Chronicles 7:21 · 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 (house, one, LORD), 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:159 # text = And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 passeth pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 astonished astonished VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 25 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 ccomp _ _ 29 thus thus ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 unto unto ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character, form=decl, act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | this house | | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | present | every one | | | | | by house | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by it=Location | | 3 | **astonished** | shall · passive | | every one | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** | present · perfect | the LORD | | | | | unto this land and this house; thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וְהַבַּ֤יִת הַזֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָיָ֣ה עֶלְי֔וֹן לְכָל־עֹבֵ֥ר עָלָ֖יו יִשֹּׁ֑ם וְאָמַ֗ר בַּמֶּ֨ה עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ כָּ֔כָה לָאָ֥רֶץ הַזֹּ֖את וְלַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּֽה׃ [2 Chronicles 7:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:159` 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. - ← previous: [2 Chronicles 7:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.158/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 7:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.160/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 7:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.21/)