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title: Ezra 5:6 (JPS 1917) — The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharesachites, who were beyond the River, sent unto Darius the king; Who acts: Apharesachites, Tattenai. Ezra 5:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 5:6 · JPS 1917

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The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharesachites, who were beyond the River, sent unto Darius the king;

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**Who acts:** Apharesachites, Tattenai · **What happens:** be, send, copy · **To what, where:** copy, letter

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This is Ezra 5:6 · 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 (Apharesachites, Tattenai), 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:125
# text = The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharesachites, who were beyond the River, sent unto Darius the king;
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	copy	copy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
7	Tattenai	Tattenai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Shethar	Shethar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bozenai	bozenai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Apharesachites	apharesachite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	acl:relcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
33	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Darius	Darius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Apharesachites |  |  |  |  | beyond the River | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past | Tattenai and Shethar and Shethar's companions | the copy of the letter |  |  |  | unto Darius | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **copy** |  |  | the letter |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=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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פַּרְשֶׁ֣גֶן אִ֠גַּרְתָּא דִּֽי־שְׁלַ֞ח תַּתְּנַ֣י ׀ פַּחַ֣ת עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֗ה וּשְׁתַ֤ר בּוֹזְנַי֙ שְׁתַ֤ר בּוֹזְנַי֙ וּכְנָ֣וָתֵ֔הּ אֲפַ֨רְסְכָיֵ֔א דִּ֖י בַּעֲבַ֣ר נַהֲרָ֑ה עַל־דָּרְיָ֖וֶשׁ מַלְכָּֽא׃

[Ezra 5:6: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.6/)

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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:125` 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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