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title: 2 Chronicles 3:13 (JPS 1917) — The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits; a… · tree and pragmatics
description: The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits; and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward. Who acts: wings, faces. 2 Chronicles 3:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 3:13 · JPS 1917

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The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits; and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.

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**Who acts:** wings, faces · **What happens:** spread, stand, be · **To what, where:** wings, feet

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This is 2 Chronicles 3:13 · 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, faces), 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:50
# text = The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits; and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	cherubim	cherubim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	inward	inward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **spread** | past | the wings of this cherubim | wings *= wing* |  |  |  | twenty cubits *obl:unmarked*; forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | wings *= wing* |  |  | wings's feet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | wings's faces |  |  |  |  | inward *property* | 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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כַּנְפֵי֙ הַכְּרוּבִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה פֹּֽרְשִׂ֖ים אַמּ֣וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֑ים וְהֵ֛ם עֹמְדִ֥ים עַל־רַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם וּפְנֵיהֶ֥ם לַבָּֽיִת׃ס

[2 Chronicles 3:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.13/)

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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:50` 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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