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title: Ezra 6:17 (JPS 1917) — And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. Who acts: children. Ezra 6:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Ezra 6:17 · JPS 1917

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And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** offer, accord · **To what, where:** hundred bullocks, dedication

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This is Ezra 6:17 · 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 (children), 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:155
# text = And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dedication	dedication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	rams	ram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	orphan	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
35	he	he	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	_
37	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	case	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	orphan	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **offer** | past | children *= child* | a hundred bullocks and hundred rams and hundred lambs |  | the dedication of this house of God |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bullock=Theme |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְהַקְרִ֗בוּ לַחֲנֻכַּת֮ בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֣א דְנָה֒ תּוֹרִ֣ין מְאָ֔ה דִּכְרִ֣ין מָאתַ֔יִן אִמְּרִ֖ין אַרְבַּ֣ע מְאָ֑ה וּצְפִירֵ֨י עִזִּ֜ין לְחַטָּאָ֤ה עַל־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ תְּרֵֽי־עֲשַׂ֔ר לְמִנְיָ֖ן שִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Ezra 6:17: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.17/)

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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:155` 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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