Ezra 5:9 · JPS 1917

Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus: Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?

Who acts: we · What happens: ask, say, give, build, finish · To what, where: elders, decree, you, house, wall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ezra 5:9 · 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 asked	advmod
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 elders	det
5	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	conj
9	unto	unto	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	thus	thus	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
13	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 decree	det
17	decree	decree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 build	mark
19	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 decree	acl
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 house	det
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 build	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 finish	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 finish	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 finish	mark
25	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 build	conj
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 wall	det
27	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 finish	obj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	we	that elders		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elder=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	we not said here				unto elders = elder; thus property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	give	past		a decree	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient decree=Theme
4	build	to-infinitive		this house				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
5	finish	to-infinitive		this wall				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wall=Eventuality

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

אֱדַ֗יִן שְׁאֵ֙לְנָא֙ לְשָׂבַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֔ךְ כְּנֵ֖מָא אֲמַ֣רְנָא לְּהֹ֑םמַן־שָׂ֨ם לְכֹ֜ם טְעֵ֗ם בַּיְתָ֤א דְנָה֙ לְמִבְנְיָ֔ה וְאֻשַּׁרְנָ֥א דְנָ֖ה לְשַׁכְלָלָֽה׃

Ezra 5:9: 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:128 of Mova's parse database.

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