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title: 2 Chronicles 30:3 (JPS 1917) — For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not… · tree and pragmatics
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# 2 Chronicles 30:3 · JPS 1917

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For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** counsel, priests, people · **What happens:** not keep, not sanctify, gather · **To what, where:** passover, counsel, sufficient number, Jerusalem

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This is 2 Chronicles 30:3 · 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 (counsel, priests, people), 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:683
# text = For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	sanctified	sanctify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **not** **keep** | could | counsel | passover |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **sanctify** | past · perfect | the priests | counsel |  | sufficient number |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** | past · perfect | the people | counsel | Jerusalem |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to jerusalem=Co-Patient |

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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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כִּ֣י לֹ֧א יָכְל֛וּ לַעֲשֹׂת֖וֹ בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֑יא כִּ֤י הַכֹּהֲנִים֙ לֹֽא־הִתְקַדְּשׁ֣וּ לְמַ דַּ֔יוְהָעָ֖ם לֹא־נֶאֶסְפ֥וּלִֽירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[2 Chronicles 30:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.30.3/)

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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:683` 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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