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title: Ezra 5:7 (JPS 1917) — they sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus: 'Unto Darius… · tree and pragmatics
description: they sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus: 'Unto Darius the king, all peace. Who acts: Tattenai. Ezra 5:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 5:7 · JPS 1917

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they sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus: 'Unto Darius the king, all peace.

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**Who acts:** Tattenai · **What happens:** send, write · **To what, where:** letter

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This is Ezra 5:7 · 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 (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:126
# text = they sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus: 'Unto Darius the king, all peace.
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Darius	Darius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- 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 | **send** | past | Tattenai | a letter |  |  |  | unto Darius | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | unto Darius; thus, wherein *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» |

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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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פִּתְגָמָ֖א שְׁלַ֣חוּ עֲל֑וֹהִי וְכִדְנָה֙ כְּתִ֣יב בְּגַוֵּ֔הּ לְדָרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א שְׁלָמָ֥א כֹֽלָּא׃ס

[Ezra 5:7: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.7/)

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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:126` 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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