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title: Ezra 6:1 (JPS 1917) — Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up, in Babylon. Who acts: Darius. Ezra 6:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 6:1 · JPS 1917

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Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up, in Babylon.

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**Who acts:** Darius · **What happens:** make, lay up · **To what, where:** decree, search, house, treasures, Babylon

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This is Ezra 6:1 · 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 (Darius), 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:137
# text = Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up, in Babylon.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Darius	Darius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	archives	archive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Darius | a decree |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decree=Product |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | search |  | the house of the archives |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **lay up** | past · passive |  | the treasures |  | Babylon |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in babylon=Destination |

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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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בֵּאדַ֛יִן דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֑ם וּבַקַּ֣רוּ ׀ בְּבֵ֣ית סִפְרַיָּ֗א דִּ֧י גִנְזַיָּ֛א מְהַחֲתִ֥ין תַּמָּ֖ה בְּבָבֶֽל׃

[Ezra 6:1: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.1/)

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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:137` of Mova's parse database.

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