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title: 2 Chronicles 9:20 (JPS 1917) — And all king Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the ve… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all king Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. Who acts: drinking vessels, vessels. 2 Chronicles 9:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# 2 Chronicles 9:20 · JPS 1917

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And all king Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

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**Who acts:** drinking vessels, vessels · **What happens:** be, account · **To what, where:** silver

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This is 2 Chronicles 9:20 · 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 (drinking vessels, vessels), 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:200
# text = And all king Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	accounted	account	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
34	of	of	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is** | past | king Solomon's drinking vessels |  |  |  |  | of gold and pure gold | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | all vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon |  |  |  |  | of pure gold | tree rules |
| 3 | **account** | past · passive |  | silver |  |  | day | nothing *obl:unmarked* | 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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וְ֠כֹל כְּלֵ֞י מַשְׁקֵ֨ה הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹה֙ זָהָ֔ב וְכֹ֗ל כְּלֵ֛י בֵּֽית־יַ֥עַר הַלְּבָנ֖וֹן זָהָ֣ב סָג֑וּר אֵ֣ין כֶּ֗סֶף נֶחְשָׁ֛ב בִּימֵ֥י שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה לִמְאֽוּמָה׃

[2 Chronicles 9:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.20/)

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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:200` 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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