--- title: 2 Chronicles 35:8 (JPS 1917) — Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, ga… · tree and pragmatics description: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen. Who acts: Hilkiah. 2 Chronicles 35:8 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.839/) [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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/35/) / [35:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.8/) / JPS 2 # 2 Chronicles 35:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen. **Who acts:** Hilkiah · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** thousand small cattle This is 2 Chronicles 35:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Hilkiah), 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:839 # text = Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen. 1 Hilkiah Hilkiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Zechariah Zechariah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Jehiel Jehiel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 unto unto ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 passover passover NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 offerings offering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 compound _ _ 28 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 conj _ _ 29 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 cattle cattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 compound _ _ 34 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel | thousand small cattle and hundred oxen | | | | unto the priests; for the passover offerings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme for offering=Asset | 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} וְשָׂרָ֞יו לִנְדָבָ֥ה לָעָ֛ם לַכֹּהֲנִ֥ים וְלַלְוִיִּ֖ם הֵרִ֑ימוּ חִלְקִיָּ֨ה וּזְכַרְיָ֜הוּ וִֽיחִיאֵ֗ל נְגִידֵי֙ בֵּ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים לַכֹּהֲנִ֞ים נָתְנ֣וּ לַפְּסָחִ֗ים אַלְפַּ֙יִם֙ וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מֵא֔וֹת וּבָקָ֖ר שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃ [2 Chronicles 35:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.8/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.838/) 2. **Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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