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title: 2 Chronicles 3:3 (JPS 1917) — Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. Who acts: these, Solomon. 2 Chronicles 3:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 3:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God.

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**Who acts:** these, Solomon · **What happens:** be, lay · **To what, where:** foundations

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This is 2 Chronicles 3:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (these, Solomon), 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:38
# text = Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	foundations	foundation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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	_	16	case	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | these | the foundations |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | past | Solomon | the foundations |  |  |  | for the building of the house of God | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Result for building=Beneficiary |

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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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וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ הוּסַ֣ד שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה לִבְנ֖וֹת אֶת־בֵּ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים הָאֹ֡רֶךְ אַמּ֞וֹת בַּמִּדָּ֤ה הָרִֽאשׁוֹנָה֙ אַמּ֣וֹת שִׁשִּׁ֔ים וְרֹ֖חַב אַמּ֥וֹת עֶשְׂרִֽים׃

[2 Chronicles 3:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God.**
2. [The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.39/)

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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:38` 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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