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title: 2 Chronicles 2:17 (JPS 1917) — And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work. Who acts: David. 2 Chronicles 2:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 2:17 · JPS 1917

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And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work.

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** set, bear, be · **To what, where:** threescore ten thousand, burdens, hewers, mountains, people, work

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This is 2 Chronicles 2:17 · 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 (David), 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:35
# text = And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	burdens	burden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	fourscore	fourscore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	hewers	hewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	compound	_	_
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
30	overseers	overseer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | David | threescore ten thousand of strangers and thousand overseers |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient thousand=Result |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive | David *not said here* | burdens |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | hewers |  | the mountains |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | to-infinitive | David *not said here* | the people |  | work |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme at work=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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וַיַּ֨עַשׂ מֵהֶ֜ם שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֙לֶף֙ סַבָּ֔ל וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף חֹצֵ֣ב בָּהָ֑ר וּשְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת אֲלָפִים֙ וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מֵא֔וֹת מְנַצְּחִ֖ים לְהַעֲבִ֥יד אֶת־הָעָֽם׃

[2 Chronicles 2:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.2.17/)

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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:35` 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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