--- title: Ezra 6:14 (JPS 1917) — And they builded and finished it, according to the commandment of th… · tree and pragmatics description: And they builded and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. Who acts: elders, Cyrus. 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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 (elders, 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:152 # text = And they builded and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 builded build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 finished finish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 case _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 case _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 decree decree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Cyrus Cyrus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 Darius Darius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 Artaxerxes Artaxerxes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past | elders *= elder* | | | | | accord the commandment of the God of Israel and the decree of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **finish** | past | elders *= elder* *not said here* | prophesying *= prophesy* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | | 3 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **command** | | | the God of Israel | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **decree** | | Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia | | | | | | nom decree «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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} וְשָׂבֵ֤י יְהוּדָיֵא֙ בָּנַ֣יִן וּמַצְלְחִ֔ין בִּנְבוּאַת֙ חַגַּ֣י נְבִיָּ֔א וּזְכַרְיָ֖ה בַּר־עִדּ֑וֹא וּבְנ֣וֹ וְשַׁכְלִ֗לוּ מִן־טַ֙עַם֙ אֱלָ֣הּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וּמִטְּעֵם֙ כּ֣וֹרֶשׁ וְדָרְיָ֔וֶשׁ וְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּא מֶ֥לֶךְ פָּרָֽס׃ [Ezra 6:14: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.14/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And the elders of the Jews builded and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.151/) 2. **And they builded and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZR:152` 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. - ← previous: [Ezra 6:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.151/) - next →: [Ezra 6:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.153/) - ↑ back to [Ezra 6:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.14/)