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title: Ezra 5:12 (JPS 1917) — But because that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven, He gave… · tree and pragmatics
description: But because that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon. Who acts: fathers, God, Nebuchadnezzar king. Ezra 5:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and
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# Ezra 5:12 · JPS 1917

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But because that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

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**Who acts:** fathers, God, Nebuchadnezzar king · **What happens:** provoke, give, destroy, carry away · **To what, where:** God, fathers, hand, house, people, Babylon

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This is Ezra 5:12 · 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 (fathers, God, Nebuchadnezzar 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:131
# text = But because that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	provoked	provoke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Chaldean	Chaldean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **provoke** | past · perfect | our fathers | the God of heaven |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus god=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give** | past | God | fathers *= father* |  | the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **destroy** | past | Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon | this house |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 4 | **carry away** | past | Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon *not said here* | the people |  | Babylon |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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לָהֵ֗ן מִן־דִּ֨י הַרְגִּ֤זוּ אֲבָהֳתַ֙נָא֙ לֶאֱלָ֣הּ שְׁמַיָּ֔א יְהַ֣ב הִמּ֔וֹ בְּיַ֛ד נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֥ר מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֖ל כַּסְדָּאָ֑ה וּבַיְתָ֤ה דְנָה֙ סַתְרֵ֔הּ וְעַמָּ֖ה הַגְלִ֥י לְבָבֶֽל׃ס

[Ezra 5:12: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.12/)

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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:131` 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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