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title: Ezra 5:10 (JPS 1917) — We asked them their names also, to announce to thee, that we might w… · tree and pragmatics
description: We asked them their names also, to announce to thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them. Who acts: We, men, walls. Ezra 5:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 5:10 · JPS 1917

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We asked them their names also, to announce to thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them.

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**Who acts:** We, men, walls · **What happens:** ask, announce, write, be, name · **To what, where:** names, walls, thee, head, men

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This is Ezra 5:10 · 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, walls), 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:129
# text = We asked them their names also, to announce to thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	announce	announce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | We | walls's names | walls *= wall* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  | thee |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to thou=Recipient |
| 3 | **write** | might | we | the names of the men |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the men |  |  | the head |  | of walls *= wall* | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** |  | walls *= wall* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | the men |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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וְאַ֧ף שְׁמָהָתְהֹ֛ם שְׁאֵ֥לְנָא לְּהֹ֖םלְהוֹדָעוּתָ֑ךְ דִּ֛י נִכְתֻּ֥ב שֻׁם־גֻּבְרַיָּ֖א דִּ֥י בְרָאשֵׁיהֹֽם׃ס

[Ezra 5:10: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.10/)

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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:129` 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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