Ezra 5:11 · JPS 1917
And thus they returned us answer, saying: We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and finished.
Who acts: walls, We, great king · What happens: return, say, be, build, finish · To what, where: answer, us, servants, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ezra 5:11 · 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 (walls, We, great king), 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 | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | iobj |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 returned | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 servants | punct |
| 10 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 servants | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 servants | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 servants | det |
| 13 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 God | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 God | det |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 servants | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 heaven | case |
| 18 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 God | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 earth | cc |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heaven | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 they | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 build | cc |
| 23 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 servants | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 build | obj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 builded | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 builded | aux:pass |
| 28 | builded | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 house | acl:relcl |
| 29 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 years | det |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 years | amod |
| 31 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 28 builded | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 builded | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 builded | obj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 king | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 king | amod |
| 37 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 builded | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Israel | case |
| 39 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 king | nmod |
| 40 | builded | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 house | acl:relcl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 finished | cc |
| 42 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 builded | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | walls = wall | answer | us | thus property | vn reciprocate-112 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent we=Theme answer=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | walls = wall not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | We | the servants | of the God of heaven and earth | tree rules | |||
| 4 | build | present | We not said here | the house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | ||||
| 5 | build | past · passive | the house | ago property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 6 | build | past | a great king of Israel | the house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product | ||||
| 7 | finish | past | a great king of Israel not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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
וּכְנֵ֥מָא פִתְגָמָ֖א הֲתִיב֣וּנָא לְמֵמַ֑ר אֲנַ֣חְנָא הִמּ֡וֹ עַבְדוֹהִי֩ דִֽי־אֱלָ֨הּ שְׁמַיָּ֜א וְאַרְעָ֗א וּבָנַ֤יִן בַּיְתָא֙ דִּֽי־הֲוָ֨א בְנֵ֜ה מִקַּדְמַ֤ת דְּנָה֙ שְׁנִ֣ין שַׂגִּיאָ֔ן וּמֶ֤לֶךְ לְיִשְׂרָאֵל֙ רַ֔ב בְּנָ֖הִי וְשַׁכְלְלֵֽהּ׃
Ezra 5:11: 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:130 of Mova's parse database.
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