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title: Ezra 6:2 (JPS 1917) — And there was found at Ahmetha, in the palace that is in the provinc… · tree and pragmatics
description: And there was found at Ahmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written: 'A record. Who acts: palace. Ezra 6:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 6:2 · JPS 1917

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And there was found at Ahmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written: 'A record.

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**Who acts:** palace · **What happens:** find, be, write · **To what, where:** roll, Ahmetha, province, record

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This is Ezra 6:2 · 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 (palace), 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:138
# text = And there was found at Ahmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written: 'A record.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ahmetha	Ahmetha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Media	Media	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | a roll |  | Ahmetha; there |  | in the palace | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at ahmetha=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | present | the palace |  |  | the province |  | of Media | tree rules |
| 3 | **write** | past · passive |  | a record |  |  |  | therein, thus *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֣ח בְּאַחְמְתָ֗א בְּבִֽירְתָ֛א דִּ֛י בְּמָדַ֥י מְדִינְתָּ֖ה מְגִלָּ֣ה חֲדָ֑ה וְכֵן־כְּתִ֥יב בְּגַוַּ֖הּ דִּכְרוֹנָֽה׃פ

[Ezra 6:2: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.2/)

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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:138` 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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