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title: 2 Chronicles 8:18 (JPS 1917) — And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon. Who acts: Huram, servants, ships. 2 Chronicles 8:1
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# 2 Chronicles 8:18 · JPS 1917

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And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

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**Who acts:** Huram, servants, ships · **What happens:** send, have, come, fetch, bring · **To what, where:** ships, Solomon, knowledge, Ophir, hundred talents, talents

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This is 2 Chronicles 8:18 · 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 (Huram, servants, ships), 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:179
# text = And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Huram	Huram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Ophir	Ophir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	34	obl	_	_
37	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	compound	_	_
38	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	conj	_	_
41	talents	talent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **send** | past | Huram | ships and servants | Solomon |  |  | by the hands of Solomon's servants | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination ship=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | servants | knowledge of the sea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | ships *= ship* |  |  | Ophir |  | with the servants of Solomon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ophir=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fetch** | past | ships *= ship* *not said here* | hundred talents of gold |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent talent=Theme from thence=Source |
| 5 | **bring** | past | ships *= ship* *not said here* | talents *= talent* | king Solomon |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to solomon=Destination |

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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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וַיִּֽשְׁלַֽח־לוֹ֩ חוּרָ֨ם בְּיַד־עֲבָדָ֜יו אֳנִיּ֗וֹת וַעֲבָדִים֮ י֣וֹדְעֵי יָם֒ וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ עִם־עַבְדֵ֤י שְׁלֹמֹה֙ אוֹפִ֔ירָה וַיִּקְח֣וּ מִשָּׁ֔ם אַרְבַּע־מֵא֥וֹת וַחֲמִשִּׁ֖ים כִּכַּ֣ר זָהָ֑ב וַיָּבִ֖יאוּ אֶל־הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹֽה׃פ

[2 Chronicles 8:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.8.18/)

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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:179` of Mova's parse database.

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