--- title: Ezra 4:6 — And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. Who acts: counsellors. Ezra 4:6 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Ezra](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR/4/) / 4:6 # Ezra 4:6 עֶזְרָא **Who acts:** counsellors · **What happens:** write, begin · **To what, where:** accusation, reign This is Ezra 4:6 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — counsellors — and what happens in the verse to accusation, reign, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 10 chapters of Ezra on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וּבְמַלְכוּת֙ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ בִּתְחִלַּ֖ת מַלְכוּת֑וֹ כָּתְב֣וּ שִׂטְנָ֔ה עַל־יֹשְׁבֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס [And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.101/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:EZR:99 # text = וּבְמַלְכוּת֙ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ בִּתְחִלַּ֖ת מַלְכוּת֑וֹ כָּתְב֣וּ שִׂטְנָ֔ה עַל־יֹשְׁבֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס # verse = EZR.4.6 1-3 וּבְמַלְכוּת֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EZR_4:6!1|MId=o150040060011|Strong=2050b 2 בְ בְּ ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=EZR_4:6!1|MId=o150040060012|Strong=0871a 3 מַלְכוּת֙ מַלְכוּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=the.reign|Ref=EZR_4:6!1|MId=o150040060013|Strong=4438 4 אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ PROPN _ _ 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Ahasuerus|Ref=EZR_4:6!2|MId=o150040060021|Strong=0325 5-6 בִּתְחִלַּ֖ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=at|Ref=EZR_4:6!3|MId=o150040060031|Strong=0871a 6 תְחִלַּ֖ת תְּחִלָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=the.beginning|Ref=EZR_4:6!3|MId=o150040060032|Strong=8462 7-8 מַלְכוּת֑וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 מַלְכוּת מַלְכוּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=his.reign|Ref=EZR_4:6!4|MId=o150040060041|Strong=4438 8 ֑וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=EZR_4:6!4|MId=o150040060042|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 9 כָּתְב֣וּ כָּתַב VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.wrote|Ref=EZR_4:6!5|MId=o150040060051|Strong=3789|Frame=A0:150040040021;A1:150040060061;|Type=qatal 10 שִׂטְנָ֔ה שִׂטְנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 obj _ Gloss=an.accusation|Ref=EZR_4:6!6|MId=o150040060061|Strong=7855 11 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=EZR_4:6!7|MId=o150040060071|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 12 יֹשְׁבֵ֥י יָשַׁב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 9 advcl _ Gloss=the.inhabitants|Ref=EZR_4:6!8|MId=o150040060081|Strong=3427|Type=participle_active 13 יְהוּדָ֖ה יְהוּדָה PROPN _ _ 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Judah|Ref=EZR_4:6!9|MId=o150040060091|Strong=3063 14-15 וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וִ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EZR_4:6!10|MId=o150040060101|Strong=2050b 15 ירוּשָׁלִָֽם יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם PROPN _ _ 13 conj _ Gloss=Jerusalem|Ref=EZR_4:6!10|MId=o150040060102|Strong=3389 16 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 15 punct _ Ref=EZR_4:6!10|SpaceAfter=No 17 ס ס PUNCT _ _ 15 punct _ Ref=EZR_4:6!10 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | כָּתְבוּ *they wrote* | qatal · qal | | שִׂטְנָה *an accusation* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.101/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). Hebrew sentence `wlc:EZR:99`. - ← previous: [Ezra 4:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.5/) - next →: [Ezra 4:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.7/) - ↑ back to [Ezra 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR/4/)