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title: 2 Chronicles 2:8 (JPS 1917) — even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am abo… · tree and pragmatics
description: even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful. Who acts: I, house. 2 Chronicles 2:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 2:8 · JPS 1917

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even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

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**Who acts:** I, house · **What happens:** prepare, be, build · **To what, where:** timber, me, abundance

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This is 2 Chronicles 2:8 · 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 (I, house), 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:26
# text = even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
1	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, form=frag

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | to-infinitive |  | timber | me | abundance |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary timber=Product |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | shall | the house |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וּלְהָכִ֥ין לִ֛י עֵצִ֖ים לָרֹ֑ב כִּ֥י הַבַּ֛יִת אֲשֶׁר־אֲנִ֥י בוֹנֶ֖ה גָּד֥וֹל וְהַפְלֵֽא׃

[2 Chronicles 2:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.2.8/)

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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:26` 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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