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title: 2 Chronicles 4:3 (JPS 1917) — The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast. · tree and pragmatics
description: The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast. Who acts: oxen. 2 Chronicles 4:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 4:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

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**Who acts:** oxen · **What happens:** be, cast · **To what, where:** two rows, oxen

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This is 2 Chronicles 4:3 · 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 (oxen), 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:58
# text = The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
13	.	.	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 | **is** | past | the oxen |  |  | two rows |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cast** | participle |  | the oxen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cast** | past · passive |  | oxen *= ox* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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וּדְמ֣וּת בְּקָרִים֩ תַּ֨חַת ל֜וֹ סָבִ֤יב ׀ סָבִיב֙ סוֹבְבִ֣ים אֹת֔וֹ עֶ֚שֶׂר בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה מַקִּיפִ֥ים אֶת־הַיָּ֖ם סָבִ֑יב שְׁנַ֤יִם טוּרִים֙ הַבָּקָ֔ר יְצוּקִ֖ים בְּמֻֽצַקְתּֽוֹ׃

[2 Chronicles 4:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.4.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.57/)
2. **The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.**

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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:58` 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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