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title: Ezra 4:22 (JPS 1917) — And take heed that ye be not slack herein; why should damage grow to… · tree and pragmatics
description: And take heed that ye be not slack herein; why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?' Who acts: you, ye, damage, kings. Ezra 4:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 4:22 · JPS 1917

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And take heed that ye be not slack herein; why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?'

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**Who acts:** you, ye, damage, kings · **What happens:** take, not be, grow, hurt · **To what, where:** heed

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This is Ezra 4:22 · 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, ye, damage, kings), 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:117
# text = And take heed that ye be not slack herein; why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	slack	slack	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
9	herein	herein	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | heed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | herein, slack *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | should | damage |  |  |  |  | to the hurt of the kings | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hurt** |  | the kings |  |  |  |  |  | nom hurt «state intransitive»: of=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 Aramaic of this verse {#hebrew}

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וּזְהִירִ֥ין הֱו֛וֹ שָׁל֖וּ לְמֶעְבַּ֣ד עַל־דְּנָ֑ה לְמָה֙ יִשְׂגֵּ֣א חֲבָלָ֔א לְהַנְזָקַ֖ת מַלְכִֽין׃ס

[Ezra 4:22: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.22/)

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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:117` 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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