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title: Ezra 4:13 (JPS 1917) — Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, impost, or toll, and so thou wilt endamage the revenue of the kings. Who acts: you, River, walls, thou. Ezra 4:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 4:13 · JPS 1917

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Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, impost, or toll, and so thou wilt endamage the revenue of the kings.

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**Who acts:** you, River, walls, thou · **What happens:** be, know, build, finish, not pay, endamage · **To what, where:** city, tribute, revenue

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This is Ezra 4:13 · 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 (you, River, walls, thou), 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:108
# text = Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, impost, or toll, and so thou wilt endamage the revenue of the kings.
1	Be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	builded	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
26	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	impost	impost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	toll	toll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nsubj	_	_
36	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	endamage	endamage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	revenue	revenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle | River |  |  |  | now | unto the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **build** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | this city |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **finish** | participle | the walls |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **pay** | future | walls *= wall* | tribute and impost or toll |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Asset |
| 6 | **endamage** | future | thou | the revenue of the kings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Aramaic of this verse {#hebrew}

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כְּעַ֗ן יְדִ֙יעַ֙ לֶהֱוֵ֣א לְמַלְכָּ֔א דִּ֠י הֵ֣ן קִרְיְתָ֥א דָךְ֙ תִּתְבְּנֵ֔א וְשׁוּרַיָּ֖ה יִֽשְׁתַּכְלְל֑וּן מִנְדָּֽה־בְל֤וֹ וַהֲלָךְ֙ לָ֣א יִנְתְּנ֔וּן וְאַפְּתֹ֥ם מַלְכִ֖ים תְּהַנְזִֽק׃

[Ezra 4:13: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.13/)

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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:108` of Mova's parse database.

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