--- title: Ezra 5:2 (JPS 1917) — Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of… · tree and pragmatics description: Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them. Who acts: Zerubbabel, house, prophets. 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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 (Zerubbabel, house, prophets), 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:121 # text = Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADV RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 Zerubbabel Zerubbabel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Shealtiel Shealtiel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Jeshua Jeshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Jozadak Jozadak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 acl:relcl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 acl _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise up** | past | Zerubbabel and Jeshua | | | | then | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **begin** | past | Zerubbabel and Jeshua *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **build** | to-infinitive | Zerubbabel and Jeshua *not said here* | the house of God | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | | 4 | **is** | present | the house of God | | | Jerusalem | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | Zerubbabel and Jeshua *not said here* | the prophets | | | | with Zerubbabel; of God | tree rules | | 6 | **help** | gerund | the prophets *not said here* | prophets *= prophet* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | 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} בֵּאדַ֡יִן קָ֠מוּ זְרֻבָּבֶ֤ל בַּר־שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל֙ וְיֵשׁ֣וּעַ בַּר־יֽוֹצָדָ֔ק וְשָׁרִ֣יו לְמִבְנֵ֔א בֵּ֥ית אֱלָהָ֖א דִּ֣י בִירֽוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וְעִמְּה֛וֹן נְבִיַּיָּ֥א דִֽי־אֱלָהָ֖א מְסָעֲדִ֥ין לְהֽוֹן׃פ [Ezra 5:2: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZR:121` 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. - ← previous: [Ezra 5:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.120/) - next →: [Ezra 5:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.122/) - ↑ back to [Ezra 5:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.2/)