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title: Ezra 4:16 (JPS 1917) — We announce to the king that, if this city be builded, and the walls… · tree and pragmatics
description: We announce to the king that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, by this means thou shalt have no portion beyond the River.' Who acts: We, thou. Ezra 4:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 4:16 · JPS 1917

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We announce to the king that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, by this means thou shalt have no portion beyond the River.'

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**Who acts:** We, thou · **What happens:** announce, build, finish, have · **To what, where:** king, city, walls, portion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezra 4:16 · 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 (We, 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:111
# text = We announce to the king that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, by this means thou shalt have no portion beyond the River.'
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	announce	announce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	builded	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	means	means	NOUN	NNS	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | present | We |  | the king |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **build** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | this city |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **finish** | participle · passive |  | the walls |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | shall | thou | no portion |  |  |  | by this means; beyond the River | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Patient |

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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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מְהוֹדְעִ֤ין אֲנַ֙חְנָה֙ לְמַלְכָּ֔א דִּ֠י הֵ֣ן קִרְיְתָ֥א דָךְ֙ תִּתְבְּנֵ֔א וְשׁוּרַיָּ֖ה יִֽשְׁתַּכְלְל֑וּן לָקֳבֵ֣ל דְּנָ֔ה חֲלָק֙ בַּעֲבַ֣ר נַהֲרָ֔א לָ֥א אִיתַ֖י לָֽךְ׃פ

[Ezra 4:16: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.16/)

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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:111` 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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