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title: Ezra 7:12 (JPS 1917) — 'Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, and so forth. Ezra 7:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 7:12 · JPS 1917

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'Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, and so forth.

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This is Ezra 7:12 · 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: 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:172
# text = 'Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, and so forth.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Artaxerxes	Artaxerxes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	scribe	scribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	heaven	heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag, act=other, voice=narrator

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The Aramaic of this verse {#hebrew}

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אַ֨רְתַּחְשַׁ֔סְתְּא מֶ֖לֶךְ מַלְכַיָּ֑א לְעֶזְרָ֣א כָ֠הֲנָא סָפַ֨ר דָּתָ֜א דִּֽי־אֱלָ֧הּ שְׁמַיָּ֛א גְּמִ֖יר וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃

[Ezra 7:12: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.12/)

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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:172` 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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