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title: 2 Chronicles 1:9 (JPS 1917) — Now, O LORD God, let Thy promise unto David my father be established… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, O LORD God, let Thy promise unto David my father be established; for Thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. Who acts: you, promise, Thou, Thy. 2 Chronicles 1:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 1:9 · JPS 1917

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Now, O LORD God, let Thy promise unto David my father be established; for Thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

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**Who acts:** you, promise, Thou, Thy · **What happens:** let, establish, make, promise · **To what, where:** promise, me

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This is 2 Chronicles 1:9 · 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 (you, promise, Thou, Thy), 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:8
# text = Now, O LORD God, let Thy promise unto David my father be established; for Thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
11	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
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	7	advcl	_	_
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	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy promise  David |  |  | now | LORD *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **establish** | infinitive · passive | Thy promise  David *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | Thou | me |  |  |  | over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 4 | **promise** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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עַתָּה֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֔ים יֵֽאָמֵן֙ דְּבָ֣רְךָ֔ עִ֖ם דָּוִ֣יד אָבִ֑י כִּ֤י אַתָּה֙ הִמְלַכְתַּ֔נִי עַל־עַ֕ם רַ֖ב כַּעֲפַ֥ר הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[2 Chronicles 1:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.1.9/)

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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:8` 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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