--- title: 2 Chronicles 9:9 (JPS 1917) — And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spic… · tree and pragmatics description: And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones; neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. 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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 (Israel, such spice, queen), 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:188 # text = And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones; neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ 10 talents talent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 spices spice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 abundance abundance NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 neither neither ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 27 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 28 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 spice spice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Sheba Sheba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Solomon Solomon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | Israel | hundred talents of gold and spices in great abundance and precious stones | the king | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient talent=Theme | | 2 | **be** | past | any such spice | | | there | | neither *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | the queen of Sheba | | king Solomon | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to solomon=Recipient | 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} וַתִּתֵּ֨ן לַמֶּ֜לֶךְ מֵאָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֣ים ׀ כִּכַּ֣ר זָהָ֗ב וּבְשָׂמִ֛ים לָרֹ֥ב מְאֹ֖ד וְאֶ֣בֶן יְקָרָ֑ה וְלֹ֤א הָיָה֙ כַּבֹּ֣שֶׂם הַה֔וּא אֲשֶׁר־נָתְנָ֥ה מַֽלְכַּת־שְׁבָ֖א לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹֽה׃ [2 Chronicles 9:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:188` 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 9:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.187/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 9:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.189/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 9:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.9/)