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title: Ezra 7:6 (JPS 1917) — this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the Law… · tree and pragmatics
description: this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him. Who acts: Ezra, LORD, king. Ezra 7:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the
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# Ezra 7:6 · JPS 1917

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this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

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**Who acts:** Ezra, LORD, king · **What happens:** go up, be, give, grant, accord, request · **To what, where:** Babylon, ready scribe, Law, request, LORD

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This is Ezra 7:6 · 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 (Ezra, LORD, king), 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:166
# text = this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
1	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	scribe	scribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	iobj	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|VerbForm=Ger	44	case	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	fixed	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
50	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nmod	_	_
52	.	.	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 | **go up** | past | this Ezra |  |  | Babylon |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Ezra | a ready scribe |  | the Law of Moses |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect | the LORD | the Law of Moses |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **grant** | past | the king | LORD's request | LORD |  |  | accord the hand of the LORD | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal request=Theme |
| 5 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **request** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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 Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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ה֤וּא עֶזְרָא֙ עָלָ֣ה מִבָּבֶ֔ל וְהֽוּא־סֹפֵ֤ר מָהִיר֙ בְּתוֹרַ֣ת מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־נָתַ֥ן יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיִּתֶּן־ל֣וֹ הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ כְּיַד־יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהָיו֙ עָלָ֔יו כֹּ֖ל בַּקָּשָׁתֽוֹ׃פ

[Ezra 7:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.6/)

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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:166` 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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