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title: Ezra 5:4 (JPS 1917) — 'Then spoke we unto them after this manner, wrote they: What are the… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Then spoke we unto them after this manner, wrote they: What are the names of the men that build this building?' Who acts: we, men. Ezra 5:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 5:4 · JPS 1917

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'Then spoke we unto them after this manner, wrote they: What are the names of the men that build this building?'

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**Who acts:** we, men · **What happens:** speak, write, be, build · **To what, where:** names, building · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezra 5:4 · 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, men), 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:123
# text = 'Then spoke we unto them after this manner, wrote they: What are the names of the men that build this building?'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | we |  |  |  | after this manner; then | unto prophets *= prophet* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **write** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the names |  |  |  | of the men | tree rules |
| 4 | **build** | present | the men | this building |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset building=Product |

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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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אֱדַ֥יִן כְּנֵ֖מָא אֲמַ֣רְנָא לְּהֹ֑ם מַן־אִנּוּן֙ שְׁמָהָ֣ת גֻּבְרַיָּ֔א דִּֽי־דְנָ֥ה בִנְיָנָ֖א בָּנַֽיִן׃

[Ezra 5:4: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.4/)

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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:123` 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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