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title: 2 Chronicles 2:6 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that hath skill to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide. Who acts:
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# 2 Chronicles 2:6 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that hath skill to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

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**Who acts:** you, man, that, skilful men, David · **What happens:** send, work, have, grave, be, provide · **To what, where:** man, me, skill, manner, Judah, skilful men

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This is 2 Chronicles 2:6 · 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 (you, man, that, skilful men), 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:24
# text = Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that hath skill to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
38	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	grave	grave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
42	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	gravings	graving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	cop	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	advcl	_	_
52	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
53	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	acl:relcl	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	_
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
62	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	67	obj	_	_
63	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	67	nsubj	_	_
64	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	appos	_	_
66	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
67	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	acl:relcl	_	_
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | a man | me |  | now | therefore *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination man=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in gold and silver and brass and iron and purple and crimson and blue | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in gold=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | that | skill |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient |
| 4 | **grave** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | all manner of gravings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the skilful men | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | the skilful men |  |  | Judah and Jerusalem |  | with me | tree rules |
| 7 | **provide** | past · do-support | David | the skilful men |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition whom=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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וְעַתָּ֡ה שְֽׁלַֽח־לִ֣י אִישׁ־חָכָ֡ם לַעֲשׂוֹת֩ בַּזָּהָ֨ב וּבַכֶּ֜סֶף וּבַנְּחֹ֣שֶׁת וּבַבַּרְזֶ֗ל וּבָֽאַרְגְּוָן֙ וְכַרְמִ֣יל וּתְכֵ֔לֶת וְיֹדֵ֖עַ לְפַתֵּ֣חַ פִּתּוּחִ֑ים עִם־הַֽחֲכָמִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר עִמִּי֙ בִּֽיהוּדָ֣ה וּבִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֵכִ֖ין דָּוִ֥יד אָבִֽי׃

[2 Chronicles 2:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.2.6/)

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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:24` of Mova's parse database.

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