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title: 2 Chronicles 3:11 (JPS 1917) — And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. Who acts: wings, wing, five cubits, other wing. 2 Chronicles 3:11 in JPS 1917 w
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# 2 Chronicles 3:11 · JPS 1917

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And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

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**Who acts:** wings, wing, five cubits, other wing · **What happens:** be, reach · **To what, where:** five cubits

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This is 2 Chronicles 3:11 · 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 (wings, wing, five cubits, other wing), 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:48
# text = And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cherubim	cherubim	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	cherub	cherub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	cherub	cherub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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** | past | the wings of the cherubim |  |  |  |  | twenty cubits *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the wing of the one cherub | five cubits and five cubits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | gerund | five cubits and five cubits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the wall of the house | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the other wing | five cubits |  |  |  | likewise *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **reach** | gerund | five cubits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the wing of the other cherub | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְכַנְפֵי֙ הַכְּרוּבִ֔ים אָרְכָּ֖ם אַמּ֣וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֑ים כְּנַ֨ף הָאֶחָ֜ד לְאַמּ֣וֹת חָמֵ֗שׁ מַגַּ֙עַת֙ לְקִ֣יר הַבַּ֔יִת וְהַכָּנָ֤ף הָאַחֶ֙רֶת֙ אַמּ֣וֹת חָמֵ֔שׁ מַגִּ֕יעַ לִכְנַ֖ף הַכְּר֥וּב הָאַחֵֽר׃

[2 Chronicles 3:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.11/)

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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:48` 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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