Ezra 4:21 · JPS 1917

Make ye now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until a decree shall be made by me.

Who acts: ye, men, me · What happens: make, cause, cease, not build · To what, where: decree, men, city

This is Ezra 4:21 · 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 (ye, men, me), 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	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Make	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Make	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 decree	det
5	decree	decree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cause	mark
7	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 decree	acl
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 men	det
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cause	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cease	mark
11	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cause	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 builded	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 builded	cc
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 builded	mark
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 builded	nsubj:pass
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 builded	aux:pass
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 builded	advmod
19	builded	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cause	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 made	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 decree	det
23	decree	decree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	nsubj:pass
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 made	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 made	aux:pass
26	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 builded	advcl
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 made	obl:agent
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make	infinitive	ye	a decree	now	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset decree=Product
2	cause	to-infinitive	ye not said here	this men		tree rules
3	cease	to-infinitive	this men not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	not build	infinitive · passive		this city		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	make	shall · passive	me	a decree		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 Aramaic of this verse

כְּעַן֙ שִׂ֣ימוּ טְּעֵ֔םלְבַטָּלָ֖א גֻּבְרַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֑ךְ וְקִרְיְתָ֥א דָךְ֙ לָ֣א תִתְבְּנֵ֔א עַד־מִנִּ֖י טַעְמָ֥א יִתְּשָֽׂם׃

Ezra 4:21: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EZR:116 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.116/