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title: Ezra 5:11 (JPS 1917) — And thus they returned us answer, saying: We are the servants of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thus they returned us answer, saying: We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and finished. Who acts: walls, We, great king. Ezra 5:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Ezra 5:11 · JPS 1917

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And thus they returned us answer, saying: We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and finished.

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**Who acts:** walls, We, great king · **What happens:** return, say, be, build, finish · **To what, where:** answer, us, servants, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezra 5:11 · 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 (walls, We, great king), 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:130
# text = And thus they returned us answer, saying: We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and finished.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	builded	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	builded	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | walls *= wall* | answer | us |  |  | thus *property* | vn reciprocate-112 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent we=Theme answer=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | walls *= wall* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | We | the servants |  |  |  | of the God of heaven and earth | tree rules |
| 4 | **build** | present | We *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
| 5 | **build** | past · passive |  | the house |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 6 | **build** | past | a great king of Israel | the house |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product |
| 7 | **finish** | past | a great king of Israel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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וּכְנֵ֥מָא פִתְגָמָ֖א הֲתִיב֣וּנָא לְמֵמַ֑ר אֲנַ֣חְנָא הִמּ֡וֹ עַבְדוֹהִי֩ דִֽי־אֱלָ֨הּ שְׁמַיָּ֜א וְאַרְעָ֗א וּבָנַ֤יִן בַּיְתָא֙ דִּֽי־הֲוָ֨א בְנֵ֜ה מִקַּדְמַ֤ת דְּנָה֙ שְׁנִ֣ין שַׂגִּיאָ֔ן וּמֶ֤לֶךְ לְיִשְׂרָאֵל֙ רַ֔ב בְּנָ֖הִי וְשַׁכְלְלֵֽהּ׃

[Ezra 5:11: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.11/)

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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:130` 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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