2 Chronicles 2:5 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב

Who acts: heaven, I · What happens: be, build, see, not contain, offer · To what, where: house, God · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is 2 Chronicles 2:5 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — heaven, I — and what happens in the verse to house, God, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 36 chapters of 2 Chronicles on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וּמִ֤י יַעֲצָר־כֹּ֙חַ֙ לִבְנֽוֹת־ל֣וֹ בַ֔יִת כִּ֧י הַשָּׁמַ֛יִם וּשְׁמֵ֥י הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם לֹ֣א יְכַלְכְּלֻ֑הוּ וּמִ֤י אֲנִי֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶבְנֶה־לּ֣וֹ בַ֔יִת כִּ֖י אִם־לְהַקְטִ֥יר לְפָנָֽיו׃

But who is able to build Him a house, seeing the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? who am I then, that I should build Him a house, save only to offer before Him?

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	3 יַעֲצָר־	cc	and
2	מִ֤י	מִי	PRON	PronType=Int	3 יַעֲצָר־	nsubj	who?
3	יַעֲצָר־	עָצַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	will he retain
4	כֹּ֙חַ֙	כֹּחַ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 יַעֲצָר־	obj	strength
5	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	6 בְנֽוֹת־	case	to
6	בְנֽוֹת־	בָּנָה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	3 יַעֲצָר־	advcl	build
7	ל	לְ	ADP	_	8 ֣וֹ	case	for
8	֣וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 בְנֽוֹת־	obl	him
9	בַ֔יִת	בַּיִת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 בְנֽוֹת־	obj	a house
10	כִּ֧י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	18 יְכַלְכְּלֻ֑	mark	(dm)
11	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	12 שָּׁמַ֛יִם	det	the
12	שָּׁמַ֛יִם	שָׁמַיִם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	18 יְכַלְכְּלֻ֑	nsubj	heavens
13	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	14 שְׁמֵ֥י	cc	and
14	שְׁמֵ֥י	שָׁמַיִם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	12 שָּׁמַ֛יִם	conj	the heavens
15	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	16 שָּׁמַ֖יִם	det	of
16	שָּׁמַ֖יִם	שָׁמַיִם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	14 שְׁמֵ֥י	compound:smixut	the heavens
17	לֹ֣א	לֹא	ADV	_	18 יְכַלְכְּלֻ֑	advmod	not
18	יְכַלְכְּלֻ֑	כּוּל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PILPEL Number=Sing Person=3	3 יַעֲצָר־	advcl	they
19	הוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 יְכַלְכְּלֻ֑	obj	contain him
20	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 מִ֤י	cc	and
21	מִ֤י	מִי	PRON	PronType=Int	3 יַעֲצָר־	conj	who?
22	אֲנִי֙	אֲנִי	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 מִ֤י	nsubj	[am] I
23	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	24 אֶבְנֶה־	mark	(cmp)
24	אֶבְנֶה־	בָּנָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	21 מִ֤י	parataxis	I will build
25	לּ	לְ	ADP	_	26 ֣וֹ	case	for
26	֣וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 אֶבְנֶה־	obl	him
27	בַ֔יִת	בַּיִת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	24 אֶבְנֶה־	obj	a house
28	כִּ֖י	כִּי	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 הַקְטִ֥יר	mark	(dm)
29	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	28 כִּ֖י	fixed	(if)
30	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	31 הַקְטִ֥יר	case	to
31	הַקְטִ֥יר	קָטַר	VERB	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	21 מִ֤י	parataxis	make smoke
32	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	33 פָנָֽי	case	before
33	פָנָֽי	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 הַקְטִ֥יר	obl
34	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 פָנָֽי	nmod:poss	him
35	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	34 ו	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יַעֲצָר־ will he retain	yiqtol · qal	מִי who?	כֹּחַ strength
בְנֽוֹת־ build	infinitive construct · qal	מִי who?	בַיִת a house
not יְכַלְכְּלֻ they	yiqtol · pilpel	שָּׁמַיִם heavens + שְׁמֵי the heavens	הוּ contain him
אֶבְנֶה־ I will build	yiqtol · qal		בַיִת a house
הַקְטִיר make smoke	infinitive construct · hiphil

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

But who is able to build Him a house, seeing the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? who am I then, that I should build Him a house, save only to offer before Him?

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:2CH:22.

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