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title: 2 Chronicles 3:8 (JPS 1917) — And he made the most holy place; the length thereof, according to th… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Chronicles 3:8 · JPS 1917

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And he made the most holy place; the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

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**Who acts:** height, length · **What happens:** make, accord, be, overlay, amount · **To what, where:** holy place, twenty cubits, house

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This is 2 Chronicles 3:8 · 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 (height, 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:44
# text = And he made the most holy place; the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
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	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
11	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	overlaid	overlay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	amounting	amount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	compound	_	_
43	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	talents	talent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | past | height | the holy place |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Product |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the length accord the breadth of the house | twenty cubits and the breadth  twenty cubits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **overlay** | past | height | house |  |  |  | with fine gold | tree rules |
| 5 | **amount** | gerund | height *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to hundred talents | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme to talent=Value |

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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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וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ אֶת־בֵּֽית־קֹ֣דֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁ֔ים אָרְכּ֞וֹ עַל־פְּנֵ֤י רֹֽחַב־הַבַּ֙יִת֙ אַמּ֣וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֔ים וְרָחְבּ֖וֹ אַמּ֣וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֑ים וַיְחַפֵּ֙הוּ֙ זָהָ֣ב ט֔וֹב לְכִכָּרִ֖ים שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃

[2 Chronicles 3:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.8/)

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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:44` of Mova's parse database.

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