Ezra 5:4 · JPS 1917

'Then spoke we unto them after this manner, wrote they: What are the names of the men that build this building?'

Who acts: we, men · What happens: speak, write, be, build · To what, where: names, building · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ezra 5:4 · 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 (we, men), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 names	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 spoke	advmod
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wrote	ccomp
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 manner	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 manner	det
9	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct
11	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 names	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 names	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 names	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 names	det
17	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spoke	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 men	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 men	det
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 names	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 build	nsubj
22	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 men	acl:relcl
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 building	det
24	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 build	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 names	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 names	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	we		after this manner; then	unto prophets = prophet	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	write	past					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present		the names		of the men	tree rules
4	build	present	the men	this building			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset building=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

אֱדַ֥יִן כְּנֵ֖מָא אֲמַ֣רְנָא לְּהֹ֑ם מַן־אִנּוּן֙ שְׁמָהָ֣ת גֻּבְרַיָּ֔א דִּֽי־דְנָ֥ה בִנְיָנָ֖א בָּנַֽיִן׃

Ezra 5:4: 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:123 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.

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