Ezra 8:29 · JPS 1917
Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' houses of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.'
Who acts: ye · What happens: watch, keep, weigh · To what, where: vessels, Jerusalem
This is Ezra 8:29 · 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 (ye), 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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Watch | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 keep | cc |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 weigh | punct |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 weigh | mark |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 weigh | nsubj |
| 10 | weigh | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 weigh | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 chiefs | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chiefs | det |
| 14 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 weigh | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 priests | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priests | det |
| 17 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chiefs | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Levites | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Levites | det |
| 20 | Levites | levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 priests | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 princes | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 princes | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princes | det |
| 24 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chiefs | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 houses | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fathers | det |
| 27 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 houses | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 27 fathers | case |
| 29 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 princes | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Israel | case |
| 31 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 houses | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Jerusalem | punct |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 Jerusalem | case |
| 34 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 weigh | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 chambers | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 chambers | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 chambers | det |
| 38 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 Jerusalem | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 house | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 house | det |
| 41 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 chambers | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 LORD | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 LORD | det |
| 44 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 house | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | infinitive | ye | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | ye not said here | vessels = vessel | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weigh | present | ye | vessels = vessel | Jerusalem | before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the princes of the fathers's houses of Israel | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent they=Theme at jerusalem=Value |
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
שִׁקְד֣וּ וְשִׁמְר֗וּ עַֽד־תִּשְׁקְל֡וּ לִפְנֵי֩ שָׂרֵ֨י הַכֹּהֲנִ֧ים וְהַלְוִיִּ֛ם וְשָׂרֵֽי־הָאָב֥וֹת לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם הַלִּשְׁכ֖וֹת בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃
Ezra 8:29: 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:218 of Mova's parse database.
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