Ezra 8:17 · JPS 1917

And I gave them commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should say unto Iddo and his brother, who were set over the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.

Who acts: I, people · What happens: give, tell, say, set, bring · To what, where: commandment, people, place, brother, ministers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ezra 8:17 · 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 (I, people), 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	_	3 gave	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	commandment	commandment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	unto	unto	ADP	_	7 Iddo	case
7	Iddo	Iddo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chief	det
9	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Iddo	appos
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
13	Casiphia	Casiphia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 place	appos
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 say	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 say	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 say	aux
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	ccomp
23	unto	unto	ADP	_	24 Iddo	case
24	Iddo	Iddo	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 say	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brother	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brother	nmod:poss
27	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Iddo	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 set	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 set	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 set	aux:pass
31	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 brother	acl:relcl
32	over	over	ADP	_	34 place	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 place	det
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obl
35	Casiphia	Casiphia	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 place	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bring	punct
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 bring	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 bring	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 bring	aux
40	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 set	advcl
41	unto	unto	ADP	_	42 us	case
42	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 bring	obl
43	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 bring	obj
44	for	for	ADP	_	46 house	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 house	det
46	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bring	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 God	case
48	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 God	nmod:poss
49	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 house	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	I	commandment	people	the place	unto Iddo	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient commandment=Theme at place=Asset
2	tell speech: assert	past	I		people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	should	people				unto Iddo and Iddo's brother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	set	past · passive		Iddo's brother		the place		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over place=Destination
5	bring	should	people	ministers			unto us; for the house of our God	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent minister=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 Hebrew of this verse

וָאֲצַוֶּ֤ה אוֹתָם֙ עַל־אִדּ֣וֹ הָרֹ֔אשׁ בְּכָסִפְיָ֖א הַמָּק֑וֹם וָאָשִׂימָה֩ בְּפִיהֶ֨ם דְּבָרִ֜ים לְ֠דַבֵּר אֶל־אִדּ֨וֹ אָחִ֤יו הַנְּתִינִים֙ בְּכָסִפְיָ֣א הַמָּק֔וֹם לְהָֽבִיא־לָ֥נוּ מְשָׁרְתִ֖ים לְבֵ֥ית אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

Ezra 8:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EZR:206 of Mova's parse database.

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