2 Chronicles 6:18 · JPS 1917
But will God in very truth dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house which I have builded!
Who acts: God, heaven, I · What happens: dwell, not contain, build · To what, where: truth, Thee, house
This is 2 Chronicles 6:18 · 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 (God, heaven, I), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 dwell | cc |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | _ | 7 dwell | aux |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dwell | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 truth | case |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 truth | advmod |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwell | obl |
| 7 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dwell | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwell | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 dwell | punct |
| 14 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 24 contain | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heaven | punct |
| 16 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 contain | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heaven | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heaven | det |
| 19 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heaven | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 heavens | case |
| 21 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heaven | nmod |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | _ | 24 contain | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 contain | advmod |
| 24 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dwell | parataxis |
| 25 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 contain | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 house | punct |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 less | advmod |
| 29 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 house | advmod |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 house | det |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 contain | parataxis |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 builded | obj |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 builded | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 builded | aux |
| 35 | builded | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 house | acl:relcl |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 dwell | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | future | God | truth | with men; on the earth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in truth=Location | |||
| 2 | not contain | can | heaven and the heaven of heavens | Thee | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thou=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | present · perfect | I | this house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product |
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
כִּ֚י הַֽאֻמְנָ֔ם יֵשֵׁ֧ב אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָאָדָ֖ם עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ הִ֠נֵּה שָׁמַ֜יִם וּשְׁמֵ֤י הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ לֹ֣א יְכַלְכְּל֔וּךָ אַ֕ף כִּֽי־הַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנִֽיתִי׃
2 Chronicles 6:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2CH:113 of Mova's parse database.
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