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title: 2 Chronicles 9:23 (JPS 1917) — And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to he… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. Who acts: kings, God. 2 Chronicles 9:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 9:23 · JPS 1917

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And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

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**Who acts:** kings, God · **What happens:** seek, hear, put · **To what, where:** presence, wisdom, heart

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This is 2 Chronicles 9:23 · 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 (kings, God), 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:203
# text = And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | all kings of the earth | the presence of Solomon |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | all kings of the earth *not said here* | king's wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus |
| 3 | **put** | past · perfect | God | king's wisdom |  | king's heart |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme in heart=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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וְכֹל֙ מַלְכֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ מְבַקְשִׁ֖ים אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה לִשְׁמֹ֙עַ֙ אֶת־חָכְמָת֔וֹ אֲשֶׁר־נָתַ֥ן הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּלִבּֽוֹ׃

[2 Chronicles 9:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.23/)

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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:203` 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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