Ezra 5:12 · JPS 1917
But because that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Who acts: fathers, God, Nebuchadnezzar king · What happens: provoke, give, destroy, carry away · To what, where: God, fathers, hand, house, people, Babylon
This is Ezra 5:12 · 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 (fathers, God, Nebuchadnezzar 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 2 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 provoked | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 2 because | fixed |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 provoked | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 provoked | aux |
| 7 | provoked | provoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 gave | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 God | det |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 provoked | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heaven | case |
| 11 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 God | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 provoked | punct |
| 13 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hand | det |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 20 | Nebuchadnezzar | Nebuchadnezzar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 king | compound |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hand | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Babylon | case |
| 23 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 king | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Chaldean | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Chaldean | det |
| 26 | Chaldean | Chaldean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 king | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 destroyed | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 destroyed | nsubj |
| 29 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 king | acl:relcl |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 house | det |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 destroyed | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 carried | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 carried | cc |
| 34 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 destroyed | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 people | det |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 carried | obj |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 carried | advmod |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 Babylon | case |
| 39 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 carried | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provoke | past · perfect | our fathers | the God of heaven | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus god=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | give | past | God | fathers = father | the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | destroy | past | Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon | this house | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 4 | carry away | past | Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon not said here | the people | Babylon | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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
לָהֵ֗ן מִן־דִּ֨י הַרְגִּ֤זוּ אֲבָהֳתַ֙נָא֙ לֶאֱלָ֣הּ שְׁמַיָּ֔א יְהַ֣ב הִמּ֔וֹ בְּיַ֛ד נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֥ר מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֖ל כַּסְדָּאָ֑ה וּבַיְתָ֤ה דְנָה֙ סַתְרֵ֔הּ וְעַמָּ֖ה הַגְלִ֥י לְבָבֶֽל׃ס
Ezra 5:12: 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:131 of Mova's parse database.
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