--- title: 2 Chronicles 34:11 (JPS 1917) — even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn… · tree and pragmatics description: even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. Who acts: Shaphan, kings. 2 Chronicles 34:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.806/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [2 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/) / [chapter 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/34/) / [34:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.11/) / JPS 1 # 2 Chronicles 34:11 · JPS 1917 even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. **Who acts:** Shaphan, kings · **What happens:** give, buy, make, destroy · **To what, where:** house, carpenters, hewn stone, beams, houses This is 2 Chronicles 34:11 · 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 (Shaphan, kings), 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:806 # text = even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. 1 even even ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 carpenters carpenter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 builders builder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 15 hewn hew ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 timber timber NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 couplings coupling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 26 beams beam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 acl:relcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | Shaphan | house | the carpenters and the builders | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to carpenter=Recipient | | 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Shaphan *not said here* | hewn stone and timber for couplings | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Shaphan *not said here* | beams | | | | for the houses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent beam=Product for house=Asset | | 4 | **destroy** | past · perfect | the kings of Judah | the houses | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | 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} וַֽיִּתְּנ֗וּ לֶחָֽרָשִׁים֙ וְלַבֹּנִ֔ים לִקְנוֹת֙ אַבְנֵ֣י מַחְצֵ֔ב וְעֵצִ֖ים לַֽמְחַבְּר֑וֹת וּלְקָרוֹת֙ אֶת־הַבָּ֣תִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִשְׁחִ֖יתוּ מַלְכֵ֥י יְהוּדָֽה׃ [2 Chronicles 34:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2CH:806` 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. - ← previous: [2 Chronicles 34:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.805/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 34:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.807/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 34:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.11/)