Ezra 8:23 · JPS 1917
So we fasted and besought our God for this; and He was entreated of us.
Who acts: we · What happens: fast, beseech, entreat · To what, where: God
This is Ezra 8:23 · 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 fasted | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fasted | nsubj |
| 3 | fasted | fast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 besought | cc |
| 5 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fasted | conj |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 God | nmod:poss |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 besought | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 besought | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 entreated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 entreated | cc |
| 12 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 entreated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 entreated | aux:pass |
| 14 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fasted | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 entreated | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fasted | punct |
Pragmatics
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- voice
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- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fast | past | we | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beseech | past | we not said here | our God | for this | tree rules | |||
| 3 | entreat | past · passive | God | of us | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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
וַנָּצ֛וּמָה וַנְּבַקְשָׁ֥ה מֵאֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ עַל־זֹ֑את וַיֵּעָתֵ֖ר לָֽנוּ׃
Ezra 8:23: 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:212 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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