Ezra 4:5 · JPS 1917

and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Who acts: counsellors · What happens: hire, frustrate, purpose · To what, where: counsellors, purpose

This is Ezra 4:5 · 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 (counsellors), 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 hired	cc
2	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hired	obj
4	against	against	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hired	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 frustrate	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 frustrate	mark
8	frustrate	frustrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hired	advcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 purpose	nmod:poss
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frustrate	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 days	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 days	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 days	det
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 frustrate	obl:unmarked
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 king	case
16	Cyrus	Cyrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 king	nmod
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 days	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Persia	case
19	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 king	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reign	punct
21	even	even	ADV	_	24 reign	advmod
22	until	until	ADP	_	24 reign	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 reign	det
24	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frustrate	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 king	case
26	Darius	Darius	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 reign	nmod
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reign	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Persia	case
29	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 king	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hired	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hire	past		counsellors		against counsellors = counsellor	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsellor=Theme
2	frustrate	to-infinitive		counsellors's purpose	until the reign Darius of king of Persia; day		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus purpose=Experiencer
3	purpose		counsellors = counsellor				nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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

וְסֹכְרִ֧ים עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם יוֹעֲצִ֖ים לְהָפֵ֣ר עֲצָתָ֑ם כָּל־יְמֵ֗י כּ֚וֹרֶשׁ מֶ֣לֶךְ פָּרַ֔ס וְעַד־מַלְכ֖וּת דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מֶֽלֶךְ־פָּרָֽס׃

Ezra 4:5: 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:EZR:100 of Mova's parse database.

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