Ezra 4:22 · JPS 1917
And take heed that ye be not slack herein; why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?'
Who acts: you, ye, damage, kings · What happens: take, not be, grow, hurt · To what, where: heed
This is Ezra 4:22 · 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 (you, ye, damage, kings), 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 take | cc |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 slack | mark |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 slack | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 slack | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 slack | advmod |
| 8 | slack | slack | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 take | ccomp |
| 9 | herein | herein | ADV | _ | 8 slack | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 grow | punct |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 grow | advmod |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 grow | aux |
| 13 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grow | nsubj |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 take | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hurt | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hurt | det |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grow | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kings | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kings | det |
| 20 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hurt | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- warn
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive | ye | herein, slack property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | should | damage | to the hurt of the kings | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hurt | the kings | nom hurt «state intransitive»: of=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 Aramaic of this verse
וּזְהִירִ֥ין הֱו֛וֹ שָׁל֖וּ לְמֶעְבַּ֣ד עַל־דְּנָ֑ה לְמָה֙ יִשְׂגֵּ֣א חֲבָלָ֔א לְהַנְזָקַ֖ת מַלְכִֽין׃ס
Ezra 4:22: 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:117 of Mova's parse database.
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