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title: Ezra 5:13 (JPS 1917) — But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made… · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God. Who acts: Cyrus. Ezra 5:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 5:13 · JPS 1917

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But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

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**Who acts:** Cyrus · **What happens:** make, build · **To what, where:** decree, house

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This is Ezra 5:13 · 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 (Cyrus), 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:132
# text = But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Cyrus	Cyrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	Cyrus	Cyrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **make** | past | Cyrus | a decree |  |  | year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decree=Product |
| 2 | **build** | to-infinitive | Cyrus *not said here* | this house of God |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |

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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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בְּרַם֙ בִּשְׁנַ֣ת חֲדָ֔ה לְכ֥וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א דִּ֣י בָבֶ֑ל כּ֤וֹרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא֙ שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֔ם בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דְנָ֖ה לִבְּנֵֽא׃

[Ezra 5:13: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.13/)

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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:132` 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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