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title: 2 Chronicles 9:21 (JPS 1917) — For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Hu… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. Who acts: king, ships. 2 Chronicles 9:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 9:21 · JPS 1917

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For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

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**Who acts:** king, ships · **What happens:** have, go, come, bring · **To what, where:** ships, Tarshish, gold

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This is 2 Chronicles 9:21 · 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 (king, 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:201
# text = For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Tarshish	Tarshish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Huram	Huram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Tarshish	Tarshish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | past | the king | ships |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | ships |  |  | Tarshish |  | with the servants of Huram | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tarshish=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | the ships of Tarshish |  |  |  | year | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | gerund | the ships of Tarshish *not said here* | gold and silver and ivory and apes and peacocks |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

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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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כִּֽי־אֳנִיּ֤וֹת לַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ הֹלְכ֣וֹת תַּרְשִׁ֔ישׁ עִ֖ם עַבְדֵ֣י חוּרָ֑ם אַחַת֩ לְשָׁל֨וֹשׁ שָׁנִ֜ים תָּב֣וֹאנָה ׀ אֳנִיּ֣וֹת תַּרְשִׁ֗ישׁ נֹֽשְׂאוֹת֙ זָהָ֣ב וָכֶ֔סֶף שֶׁנְהַבִּ֥ים וְקוֹפִ֖ים וְתוּכִּיִּֽים׃פ

[2 Chronicles 9:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.21/)

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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:201` 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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