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title: Ezra 4:5 (JPS 1917) — and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all… · tree and pragmatics
description: and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. Who acts: counsellors. Ezra 4:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 4:5 · JPS 1917

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and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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**Who acts:** counsellors · **What happens:** hire, frustrate, purpose · **To what, where:** counsellors, purpose

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This is Ezra 4:5 · 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 (counsellors), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:EZR:100
# text = and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	frustrate	frustrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Cyrus	Cyrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	until	until	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Darius	Darius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | past |  | counsellors |  |  |  | against counsellors *= counsellor* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsellor=Theme |
| 2 | **frustrate** | to-infinitive |  | counsellors's purpose |  |  | until the reign  Darius of king of Persia; day |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus purpose=Experiencer |
| 3 | **purpose** |  | counsellors *= counsellor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#hebrew}

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וְסֹכְרִ֧ים עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם יוֹעֲצִ֖ים לְהָפֵ֣ר עֲצָתָ֑ם כָּל־יְמֵ֗י כּ֚וֹרֶשׁ מֶ֣לֶךְ פָּרַ֔ס וְעַד־מַלְכ֖וּת דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מֶֽלֶךְ־פָּרָֽס׃

[Ezra 4:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.5/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZR:100` 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.

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