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title: Ezra 7:17 (JPS 1917) — therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money bullocks… · tree and pragmatics
description: therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shalt offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem. Who acts: thou, house, lambs, offering. Ezra 7:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependenc
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# Ezra 7:17 · JPS 1917

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therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shalt offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** thou, house, lambs, offering · **What happens:** buy, offer, be · **To what, where:** bullocks, Jerusalem

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This is Ezra 7:17 · 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 (thou, house, lambs, offering), 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:177
# text = therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shalt offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
1	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	diligence	diligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	rams	ram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	acl:relcl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | shall | thou | bullocks and rams and lambs |  |  |  | with all diligence; with this money; with lambs's meal offerings and offering's drink offerings; therefore *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullock=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | shall | thou *not said here* | bullocks *= bullock* |  |  |  | upon the altar of the house of your God | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the house of your God |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **offer** |  | lambs *= lamb* |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **offer** |  | offering |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «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 Aramaic of this verse {#hebrew}

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כָּל־קֳבֵ֣ל דְּנָה֩ אָסְפַּ֨רְנָא תִקְנֵ֜א בְּכַסְפָּ֣א דְנָ֗ה תּוֹרִ֤ין ׀ דִּכְרִין֙ אִמְּרִ֔ין וּמִנְחָתְה֖וֹן וְנִסְכֵּיה֑וֹן וּתְקָרֵ֣ב הִמּ֔וֹ עַֽל־מַדְבְּחָ֔ה דִּ֛י בֵּ֥ית אֱלָהֲכֹ֖ם דִּ֥י בִירוּשְׁלֶֽם׃

[Ezra 7:17: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.17/)

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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:177` 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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