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title: 2 Chronicles 1:8 (JPS 1917) — And Solomon said unto God: 'Thou hast shown great kindness unto Davi… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Solomon said unto God: 'Thou hast shown great kindness unto David my father, and hast made me king in his stead. Who acts: Solomon, Thou. 2 Chronicles 1:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 1:8 · JPS 1917

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And Solomon said unto God: 'Thou hast shown great kindness unto David my father, and hast made me king in his stead.

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**Who acts:** Solomon, Thou · **What happens:** say, show, make · **To what, where:** great kindness, me, stead · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 2 Chronicles 1:8 · 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 (Solomon, Thou), 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:7
# text = And Solomon said unto God: 'Thou hast shown great kindness unto David my father, and hast made me king in his stead.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
9	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: thank
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=thank

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Solomon |  |  |  |  | unto God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **show** | present · perfect | Thou | great kindness |  |  |  | unto David | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | Thou *not said here* | me |  | SOLOMON's stead |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר שְׁלֹמֹה֙ לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים אַתָּ֗ה עָשִׂ֛יתָ עִם־דָּוִ֥יד אָבִ֖י חֶ֣סֶד גָּד֑וֹל וְהִמְלַכְתַּ֖נִי תַּחְתָּֽיו׃

[2 Chronicles 1:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.1.8/)

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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:7` 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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