Ezra 5:3 עֶזְרָא

Who acts: Tattenai · What happens: come, say, give, build, finish · To what, where: prophets, decree, you, house, structure · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Ezra 5:3 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Biblical Aramaic as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Aramaic — and its pragmatics: who acts — Tattenai — and what happens in the verse to prophets, decree, you, house, structure, 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 10 chapters of Ezra on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

בֵּהּ־זִמְנָא֩ אֲתָ֨א עֲלֵיה֜וֹן תַּ֠תְּנַי פַּחַ֧ת עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֛ה וּשְׁתַ֥ר בּוֹזְנַ֖י שְׁתַ֥ר בּוֹזְנַ֖י וּכְנָוָתְה֑וֹן וְכֵן֙ אָמְרִ֣ין לְהֹ֔ם מַן־שָׂ֨ם לְכֹ֜ם טְעֵ֗ם בַּיְתָ֤א דְנָה֙ לִבְּנֵ֔א וְאֻשַּׁרְנָ֥א דְנָ֖ה לְשַׁכְלָלָֽה׃ס

At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, and said thus unto them: 'Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this structure?'

The tree

This verse is in Biblical Aramaic, as the book has it here; its tree is MACULA's Aramaic tree. Right to left, as it 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	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	2 ֵהּ־	case	at
2	ֵהּ־	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 אֲתָ֨א	obl	it
3	זִמְנ	זְמַן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 ֵהּ־	appos	the
4	ָא֩	א	DET	PronType=Art	3 זִמְנ	det	time
5	אֲתָ֨א	אֲתָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PEAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he came
6	עֲלֵי	עַל	ADP	_	7 ה֜וֹן	case	to
7	ה֜וֹן	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 אֲתָ֨א	obl	them
8	תַּ֠תְּנַי	תַּתְּנַי	PROPN	_	5 אֲתָ֨א	nsubj	Tattenai
9	פַּחַ֧ת	פֶּחָה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 תַּ֠תְּנַי	appos	the governor
10	עֲבַֽר־	עֲבַר	PROPN	_	9 פַּחַ֧ת	compound:smixut	of the region beyond
11	נַהֲר	נְהַר	PROPN	_	10 עֲבַֽר־	compound:smixut	the
12	ָ֛ה	ה	DET	PronType=Art	11 נַהֲר	det	river
13	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	14 שְׁתַ֥ר	cc
14	שְׁתַ֥ר	שְׁתַר	PROPN	_	8 תַּ֠תְּנַי	conj	and Shethar-Bozenai
15	בּוֹזְנַ֖י	בּוֹזְנַי	PROPN	_	14 שְׁתַ֥ר	flat:name
16	שְׁתַ֥ר	שְׁתַר	PROPN	_	8 תַּ֠תְּנַי	conj	and Shethar-Bozenai
17	בּוֹזְנַ֖י	בּוֹזְנַי	PROPN	_	16 שְׁתַ֥ר	flat:name
18	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 כְנָוָת	cc	and
19	כְנָוָת	כְּנָת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 תַּ֠תְּנַי	conj	associates
20	ְה֑וֹן	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 כְנָוָת	nmod:poss	their
21	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	23 אָמְרִ֣ין	cc	and
22	כֵן֙	כֵּן	ADV	_	23 אָמְרִ֣ין	advmod	as follows
23	אָמְרִ֣ין	אֲמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PEAL Number=Plur	5 אֲתָ֨א	conj	[they were] saying
24	ל	לְ	ADP	_	25 ְהֹ֔ם	case	to
25	ְהֹ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 אָמְרִ֣ין	obl	them
26	מַן־	מָן	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Int	27 שָׂ֨ם	nsubj	who?
27	שָׂ֨ם	שׂים	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PEAL Number=Sing Person=3	23 אָמְרִ֣ין	ccomp	did he make
28	ל	לְ	ADP	_	29 ְכֹ֜ם	case	for
29	ְכֹ֜ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 שָׂ֨ם	obl	you
30	טְעֵ֗ם	טְעֵם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	27 שָׂ֨ם	obj	a decree
31	בַּיְת	בַּיִת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	35 בְּנֵ֔א	obj	the
32	ָ֤א	א	DET	PronType=Art	31 בַּיְת	det	house
33	דְנָה֙	דְּנָה	DET	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 בַּיְת	det	this
34	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	35 בְּנֵ֔א	case	to
35	בְּנֵ֔א	בְּנָה	VERB	HebBinyan=PEAL	27 שָׂ֨ם	advcl	build
36	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	41 שַׁכְלָלָֽה	cc	and
37	אֻשַּׁרְנ	אשׁרן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	41 שַׁכְלָלָֽה	obj	the
38	ָ֥א	א	DET	PronType=Art	37 אֻשַּׁרְנ	det	structure
39	דְנָ֖ה	דְּנָה	DET	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 אֻשַּׁרְנ	det	this
40	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	41 שַׁכְלָלָֽה	case	to
41	שַׁכְלָלָֽה	כְּלַל	VERB	HebBinyan=SHAPHEL	35 בְּנֵ֔א	conj	finish
42	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	41 שַׁכְלָלָֽה	punct
43	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	41 שַׁכְלָלָֽה	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
אֲתָא he came	qatal · peal	תַּתְּנַי Tattenai + שְׁתַר and Shethar-Bozenai
אָמְרִין [they were] saying	participle active · peal	תַּתְּנַי Tattenai + שְׁתַר and Shethar-Bozenai
שָׂם did he make	qatal · peal	ל to	ל for
בְּנֵא build	infinitive construct · peal		טְעֵם a decree
שַׁכְלָלָֽה finish	infinitive construct · shaphel		בְּנֵא build

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.

At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, and said thus unto them: 'Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this structure?'

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-arc:EZR:19.

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