--- title: Ezra 5:13 — But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made… · Aramaic, tree and pragmatics description: But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God. Who acts: Cyrus. Ezra 5:13 in Biblical Aramaic 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.5.13/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR/5/) / 5:13 # Ezra 5:13 עֶזְרָא **Who acts:** Cyrus · **What happens:** make, build · **To what, where:** decree, house This is Ezra 5:13 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Biblical Aramaic as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Aramaic — and its pragmatics: who acts — Cyrus — and what happens in the verse to decree, house, 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. בְּרַם֙ בִּשְׁנַ֣ת חֲדָ֔ה לְכ֥וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א דִּ֣י בָבֶ֑ל כּ֤וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא֙ שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֔ם בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דְנָ֖ה לִבְּנֵֽא׃ [But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.132/) ## The tree {#tree} This verse is in Biblical Aramaic, as the book has it here; its tree is MACULA's Aramaic tree. Right to left, as it 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-arc:EZR:29 # text = בְּרַם֙ בִּשְׁנַ֣ת חֲדָ֔ה לְכ֥וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א דִּ֣י בָבֶ֑ל כּ֤וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא֙ שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֔ם בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דְנָ֖ה לִבְּנֵֽא׃ # verse = EZR.5.13 1 בְּרַם֙ בְּרַם CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=nevertheless|Ref=EZR_5:13!1|MId=o150050130011|Strong=1297|Lang=arc 2-3 בִּשְׁנַ֣ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=EZR_5:13!2|MId=o150050130021|Strong=0871b|Lang=arc 3 שְׁנַ֣ת שְׁנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=year|Ref=EZR_5:13!2|MId=o150050130022|Strong=8140|Lang=arc 4 חֲדָ֔ה חַד NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 3 nummod _ Gloss=one|Ref=EZR_5:13!3|MId=o150050130031|Strong=2298|Lang=arc|Type=cardinal_number 5-6 לְכ֥וֹרֶשׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=of|Ref=EZR_5:13!4|MId=o150050130041|Strong=3807b|Lang=arc 6 כ֥וֹרֶשׁ כּוֹרֶשׁ PROPN _ _ 3 nmod _ Gloss=Cyrus|Ref=EZR_5:13!4|MId=o150050130042|Strong=3567|Lang=arc 7-8 מַלְכָּ֖א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 מַלְכּ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 appos _ Gloss=the|Ref=EZR_5:13!5|MId=o150050130051|Strong=4430|Lang=arc 8 ָ֖א א DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=king|Ref=EZR_5:13!5|MId=o150050130052|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 9 דִּ֣י דִּי SCONJ _ _ 10 mark _ Gloss=(diy).of|Ref=EZR_5:13!6|MId=o150050130061|Strong=1768|Lang=arc|Type=relative 10 בָבֶ֑ל בָּבֶל PROPN _ _ 7 acl:relcl _ Gloss=Babylon|Ref=EZR_5:13!7|MId=o150050130071|Strong=0895|Lang=arc 11 כּ֤וֹרֶשׁ כּוֹרֶשׁ PROPN _ _ 14 nsubj _ Gloss=Cyrus|Ref=EZR_5:13!8|MId=o150050130081|Strong=3567|Lang=arc 12-13 מַלְכָּא֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 מַלְכּ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 appos _ Gloss=the|Ref=EZR_5:13!9|MId=o150050130091|Strong=4430|Lang=arc 13 ָא֙ א DET _ PronType=Art 12 det _ Gloss=king|Ref=EZR_5:13!9|MId=o150050130092|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 14 שָׂ֣ם שׂים VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PEAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.made|Ref=EZR_5:13!10|MId=o150050130101|Strong=7761|Lang=arc|Frame=A0:150050130081;A1:150050130111;|Type=qatal 15 טְעֵ֔ם טְעֵם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 obj _ Gloss=a.decree|Ref=EZR_5:13!11|MId=o150050130111|Strong=2942|Lang=arc 16 בֵּית־ בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 21 obj _ Gloss=the.house|Ref=EZR_5:13!12|MId=o150050130121|Strong=1005|Lang=arc|SpaceAfter=No 17-18 אֱלָהָ֥א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 אֱלָה אֱלָהּ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=EZR_5:13!13|MId=o150050130131|Strong=0426|Lang=arc 18 ָ֥א א DET _ PronType=Art 17 det _ Gloss=God|Ref=EZR_5:13!13|MId=o150050130132|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 19 דְנָ֖ה דְּנָה DET _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=EZR_5:13!14|MId=o150050130141|Strong=1836|Lang=arc|Type=demonstrative 20-21 לִבְּנֵֽא _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=EZR_5:13!15|MId=o150050130151|Strong=3807b|Lang=arc 21 בְּנֵֽא בְּנָה VERB _ HebBinyan=PEAL 14 advcl _ Gloss=build|Ref=EZR_5:13!15|MId=o150050130152|Strong=1124|Lang=arc|Frame=A0:150050090032;A1:150050130121;|Type=infinitive_construct 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=EZR_5:13!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | שָׂם *he made* | qatal · peal | כּוֹרֶשׁ *Cyrus* | טְעֵם *a decree* | | | | בְּנֵֽא *build* | infinitive construct · peal | | בֵּית־ *the house* | | | 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. [But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.132/) **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). 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