Ezra 3:12 · JPS 1917
But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, the old men that had seen the first house standing on its foundation, wept with a loud voice, when this house was before their eyes; and many shouted aloud for joy;
Who acts: old men, first house, many, house · What happens: see, stand, weep, be, shout · To what, where: first house, foundation
This is Ezra 3:12 · 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 (old men, first house, many, house), 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 | _ | 29 wept | cc |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 priests | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 priests | det |
| 5 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 many | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Levites | cc |
| 7 | Levites | Levites | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 priests | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heads | cc |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 priests | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 houses | case |
| 11 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 houses | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 fathers | case |
| 13 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heads | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 men | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 many | appos |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 men | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 house | amod |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obj |
| 24 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 house | acl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 foundation | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 foundation | nmod:poss |
| 27 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 standing | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 men | punct |
| 29 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 voice | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 voice | det |
| 32 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 voice | amod |
| 33 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wept | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 eyes | punct |
| 35 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 41 eyes | mark |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 house | det |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 eyes | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 eyes | cop |
| 39 | before | before | ADP | _ | 41 eyes | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 41 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 wept | advcl |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 shouted | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 shouted | cc |
| 44 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 shouted | nsubj |
| 45 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wept | conj |
| 46 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 45 shouted | advmod |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 joy | case |
| 48 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 shouted | obl |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | the old men | the first house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the first house not said here | house's foundation | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foundation=Location | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers's houses | with a loud voice | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | this house | before priests's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | past | many | for joy; aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=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
וְרַבִּ֡ים מֵהַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים וְהַלְוִיִּם֩ וְרָאשֵׁ֨י הָאָב֜וֹת הַזְּקֵנִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר רָא֜וּ אֶת־הַבַּ֤יִת הָֽרִאשׁוֹן֙ בְּיָסְד֔וֹ זֶ֤ה הַבַּ֙יִת֙ בְּעֵ֣ינֵיהֶ֔ם בֹּכִ֖ים בְּק֣וֹל גָּד֑וֹל וְרַבִּ֛ים בִּתְרוּעָ֥ה בְשִׂמְחָ֖ה לְהָרִ֥ים קֽוֹל׃
Ezra 3:12: 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:94 of Mova's parse database.
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