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title: 2 Chronicles 20:36 (JPS 1917) — and he joined him with himself to make ships to go to Tarshish; and… · tree and pragmatics
description: and he joined him with himself to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber. Who acts: same, ships. 2 Chronicles 20:36 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 20:36 · JPS 1917

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and he joined him with himself to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.

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**Who acts:** same, ships · **What happens:** join, make, go · **To what, where:** king, ships, Tarshish, Ezion geber

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This is 2 Chronicles 20:36 · 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 (same, ships), 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:454
# text = and he joined him with himself to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.
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	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Tarshish	Tarshish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Ezion	Ezion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	geber	geber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **join** | past | same | king |  |  |  | with same | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient with himself=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | same *not said here* | ships |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | ships *not said here* |  |  | Tarshish |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tarshish=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **make** | past | ships *= ship* | the ships |  | Ezion geber |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product |

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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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וַיְחַבְּרֵ֣הוּ עִמּ֔וֹ לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת אֳנִיּ֖וֹת לָלֶ֣כֶת תַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁ וַיַּעֲשׂ֥וּ אֳנִיּ֖וֹת בְּעֶצְי֥וֹנ גָּֽבֶר עֶצְי֥וֹנ גָּֽבֶר׃

[2 Chronicles 20:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.36/)

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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:454` 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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