--- title: 2 Chronicles 16:2 (JPS 1917) — Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the hou… · tree and pragmatics description: Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Aram, that dwelt at Damascus, saying: Who acts: Asa, king. 2 Chronicles 16:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.334/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [2 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/16/) / [16:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.16.2/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 16:2 · JPS 1917 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Aram, that dwelt at Damascus, saying: **Who acts:** Asa, king · **What happens:** bring out, send, dwell, say, treasure · **To what, where:** silver, treasures, Ben, Damascus, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Chronicles 16:2 · 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 (Asa, king), 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:334 # text = Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Aram, that dwelt at Damascus, saying: 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Asa Asa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 out out ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 hadad hadad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 31 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Aram Aram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Damascus Damascus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 41 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring out** | past | Asa | silver and gold | | the treasures of the house of the LORD and the king's house | then | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent silver=Patient | | 2 | **send** | past | Asa *not said here* | | Ben | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to ben=Destination | | 3 | **dwell** | past | king of Aram | | | Damascus | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at damascus=Location | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Asa *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **treasure** | | | the house of the LORD and the king's house | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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} וַיֹּצֵ֨א אָסָ֜א כֶּ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֗ב מֵאֹֽצְר֛וֹת בֵּ֥ית יְהוָ֖ה וּבֵ֣ית הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח אֶל־בֶּנ־הֲדַד֙בֶּנ־הֲדַד֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אֲרָ֔ם הַיּוֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּדַרְמֶ֖שֶׂק לֵאמֹֽר׃ [2 Chronicles 16:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.16.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:334` 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. - ← previous: [2 Chronicles 16:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.333/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 16:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.335/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 16:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.16.2/)