Ezra 5:5 · JPS 1917

But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease, till the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it.

Who acts: eye, prophets, Jews, matter, letter · What happens: be, not make, not cease, come, return · To what, where: Jews, Darius, answer

This is Ezra 5:5 · 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 (eye, prophets, Jews, matter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 elders	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eye	det
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 elders	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 God	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 God	nmod:poss
6	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eye	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 elders	cop
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 elders	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 elders	det
10	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Jews	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Jews	det
13	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 elders	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 make	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 make	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 make	advmod
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 elders	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	obj
21	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 come	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 matter	det
25	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Darius	case
29	Darius	Darius	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 returned	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 returned	cc
32	then	then	ADV	_	36 returned	advmod
33	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 returned	nsubj:pass
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 returned	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 returned	aux:pass
36	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 come	conj
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 letter	case
38	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 returned	obl
39	concerning	concern	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 letter	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 elders	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the eye of prophets's God				upon the elders; of the Jews	tree rules
2	not make	past · do-support	prophets = prophet	Jews = jew				tree rules
3	not cease	infinitive	Jews = jew not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	come	should	the matter		Darius			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to darius=Initial_Location
5	return	should · passive	letter concern matter	answer		then		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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

וְעֵ֣ין אֱלָהֲהֹ֗ם הֲוָת֙ עַל־שָׂבֵ֣י יְהוּדָיֵ֔א וְלָא־בַטִּ֣לוּ הִמּ֔וֹ עַד־טַעְמָ֖א לְדָרְיָ֣וֶשׁ יְהָ֑ךְ וֶאֱדַ֛יִן יְתִיב֥וּן נִשְׁתְּוָנָ֖א עַל־דְּנָֽה׃פ

Ezra 5:5: 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:124 of Mova's parse database.

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