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title: 2 Chronicles 4:6 (JPS 1917) — He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on… · tree and pragmatics
description: He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in. Who acts: brim, as, things, sea. 2 Chronicles 4:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and th
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# 2 Chronicles 4:6 · JPS 1917

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He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

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**Who acts:** brim, as, things, sea · **What happens:** make, put, wash, belong, burn, be · **To what, where:** ten lavers, five, right hand, such things

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This is 2 Chronicles 4:6 · 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 (brim, as, things, sea), 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:61
# text = He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	lavers	laver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
28	as	as	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
34	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | brim | ten lavers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laver=Product |
| 2 | **put** | past | brim *not said here* | five |  | the right hand |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent five=Theme on hand=Destination |
| 3 | **wash** | to-infinitive | brim *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in lavers *= laver* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **belong** | past | as |  |  |  |  | to the burnt offering | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wash** | past | things *= thing* | such things |  |  |  | in lavers *= laver* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | the sea |  |  |  |  | for the priests | tree rules |
| 8 | **wash** | to-infinitive | brim *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «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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וַיַּ֣עַשׂ כִּיּוֹרִים֮ עֲשָׂרָה֒ וַ֠יִּתֵּן חֲמִשָּׁ֨ה מִיָּמִ֜ין וַחֲמִשָּׁ֤ה מִשְּׂמֹאול֙ לְרָחְצָ֣ה בָהֶ֔ם אֶת־מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הָעוֹלָ֖ה יָדִ֣יחוּ בָ֑ם וְהַיָּ֕ם לְרָחְצָ֥ה לַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים בּֽוֹ׃ס

[2 Chronicles 4:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.4.6/)

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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:61` 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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