Ezra 4:4 · JPS 1917

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and harried them while they were building,

Who acts: people · What happens: weaken, harry, build · To what, where: hands, people

This is Ezra 4:4 · 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 weakened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 weakened	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
7	weakened	weaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hands	det
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 weakened	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hands	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Judah	case
14	Judah	Judah	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 people	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 harried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 harried	cc
17	harried	harry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 weakened	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 harried	obj
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 building	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 building	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 building	aux
22	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 harried	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weakened	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	weaken	past	the people of the land	the hands of the people of Judah	then	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	harry	past	the people of the land not said here	people		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	build	past · progressive	people			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

וַיְהִי֙ עַם־הָאָ֔רֶץ מְרַפִּ֖ים יְדֵ֣י עַם־יְהוּדָ֑ה וּֽמְבַהֲלִ֥ים אוֹתָ֖ם לִבְנֽוֹת׃

Ezra 4:4: 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:99 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.99/