--- title: Ezra 6:1 — Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house… · Aramaic, tree and pragmatics description: Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up, in Babylon. Who acts: Darius. Ezra 6:1 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.6.1/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR/6/) / 6:1 # Ezra 6:1 עֶזְרָא **Who acts:** Darius · **What happens:** make, lay up · **To what, where:** decree, search, house, treasures, Babylon This is Ezra 6:1 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 — Darius — and what happens in the verse to decree, search, house, treasures, Babylon, 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. בֵּאדַ֛יִן דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֑ם וּבַקַּ֣רוּ ׀ בְּבֵ֣ית סִפְרַיָּ֗א דִּ֧י גִנְזַיָּ֛א מְהַחֲתִ֥ין תַּמָּ֖ה בְּבָבֶֽל׃ [Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up, in Babylon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.137/) ## 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:34 # text = בֵּאדַ֛יִן דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֑ם וּבַקַּ֣רוּ ׀ בְּבֵ֣ית סִפְרַיָּ֗א דִּ֧י גִנְזַיָּ֛א מְהַחֲתִ֥ין תַּמָּ֖ה בְּבָבֶֽל׃ # verse = EZR.6.1 1-2 בֵּאדַ֛יִן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 בֵּ בְּ ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=|Ref=EZR_6:1!1|MId=o150060010011|Strong=0871b|Lang=arc 2 אדַ֛יִן אֱדַיִן ADV _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=then|Ref=EZR_6:1!1|MId=o150060010012|Strong=0116|Lang=arc 3 דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ דָּרְיָוֶשׁ PROPN _ _ 6 nsubj _ Gloss=Darius|Ref=EZR_6:1!2|MId=o150060010021|Strong=1868|Lang=arc 4-5 מַלְכָּ֖א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 מַלְכּ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 appos _ Gloss=the|Ref=EZR_6:1!3|MId=o150060010031|Strong=4430|Lang=arc 5 ָ֖א א DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=king|Ref=EZR_6:1!3|MId=o150060010032|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 6 שָׂ֣ם שׂים VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PEAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 parataxis _ Gloss=he.made|Ref=EZR_6:1!4|MId=o150060010041|Strong=7761|Lang=arc|Frame=A0:150060010021;A1:150060010051;|Type=qatal 7 טְעֵ֑ם טְעֵם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 obj _ Gloss=a.decree|Ref=EZR_6:1!5|MId=o150060010051|Strong=2942|Lang=arc 8-9 וּבַקַּ֣רוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EZR_6:1!6|MId=o150060010061|Strong=2050d|Lang=arc 9 בַקַּ֣רוּ בְּקַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PAEL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.searched|Ref=EZR_6:1!6|MId=o150060010062|Strong=1240|Lang=arc|Frame=A0:;|Type=qatal 10 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 9 punct _ Ref=EZR_6:1!6 11-12 בְּבֵ֣ית _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=EZR_6:1!7|MId=o150060010071|Strong=0871b|Lang=arc 12 בֵ֣ית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=the.house|Ref=EZR_6:1!7|MId=o150060010072|Strong=1005|Lang=arc 13-14 סִפְרַיָּ֗א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 סִפְרַיּ סְפַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of|Ref=EZR_6:1!8|MId=o150060010081|Strong=5609|Lang=arc 14 ָ֗א א DET _ PronType=Art 13 det _ Gloss=the.books|Ref=EZR_6:1!8|MId=o150060010082|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 15 דִּ֧י דִּי SCONJ _ _ 18 mark _ Gloss=where|Ref=EZR_6:1!9|MId=o150060010091|Strong=1768|Lang=arc|Type=relative 16-17 גִנְזַיָּ֛א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 גִנְזַיּ גְּנַז NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ Gloss=the|Ref=EZR_6:1!10|MId=o150060010101|Strong=1596|Lang=arc 17 ָ֛א א DET _ PronType=Art 16 det _ Gloss=treasures|Ref=EZR_6:1!10|MId=o150060010102|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 18 מְהַחֲתִ֥ין נְחֵת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HAPHEL|Number=Plur 12 acl:relcl _ Gloss=[were].deposited|Ref=EZR_6:1!11|MId=o150060010111|Strong=5182|Lang=arc|Frame=A1:150060010101;|Type=participle_passive 19 תַּמָּ֖ה תַּמָּה ADV _ _ 18 advmod _ Gloss=there|Ref=EZR_6:1!12|MId=o150060010121|Strong=8536|Lang=arc 20-21 בְּבָבֶֽל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=EZR_6:1!13|MId=o150060010131|Strong=0871b|Lang=arc 21 בָבֶֽל בָּבֶל PROPN _ _ 18 obl _ Gloss=Babylon|Ref=EZR_6:1!13|MId=o150060010132|Strong=0895|Lang=arc 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=EZR_6:1!13 ``` ## 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 | דָּרְיָוֶשׁ *Darius* | טְעֵם *a decree* | | | | בַקַּרוּ *they searched* | qatal · pael | | | | | | מְהַחֲתִין *\[were\] deposited* | participle passive · haphel | | גִנְזַיּ *the* | | | 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. [Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up, in Babylon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.137/) **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-arc:EZR:34`. - ← previous: [Ezra 5:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.17/) - next →: [Ezra 6:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.2/) - ↑ back to [Ezra 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR/6/)