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title: 2 Chronicles 3:3 (JPS 1917) — The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits… · tree and pragmatics
description: The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. Who acts: length. 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 2 of 2

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The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

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**Who acts:** length · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** threescore cubits

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This is 2 Chronicles 3:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (length), 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:39
# text = The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	threescore	threescore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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** | past | the length by cubits after the ancient measure | threescore cubits and the breadth and twenty cubits |  |  |  |  | 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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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.38/)
2. **The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.**

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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:39` 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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