--- title: Ezra 7:24 (JPS 1917) — Also we announce to you, that touching any of the priests and Levite… · tree and pragmatics description: Also we announce to you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, impost, or toll, upon them. Who acts: we. 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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 (we), 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:184 # text = Also we announce to you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, impost, or toll, upon them. 1 Also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 announce announce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 8 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 8 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Levites Levites PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 singers singer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 porters porter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Nethinim Nethinim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 expl _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 lawful lawful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 impose impose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 csubj _ _ 38 tribute tribute NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 impost impost NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 toll toll NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 upon upon ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | present | we | | you | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | | 2 | **touch** | gerund | | any | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme any=Co-Theme | | 3 | **not** **is** | shall | | | | | | lawful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **impose** | to-infinitive | | tribute and impost or toll | | | | upon tribute | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme | 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} וּלְכֹ֣ם מְהוֹדְעִ֗ין דִּ֣י כָל־כָּהֲנַיָּ֣א וְ֠לֵוָיֵא זַמָּ֨רַיָּ֤א תָרָֽעַיָּא֙ נְתִ֣ינַיָּ֔א וּפָ֣לְחֵ֔י בֵּ֖ית אֱלָהָ֣א דְנָ֑ה מִנְדָּ֤ה בְלוֹ֙ וַהֲלָ֔ךְ לָ֥א שַׁלִּ֖יט לְמִרְמֵ֥א עֲלֵיהֹֽם׃ [Ezra 7:24: the Aramaic tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.24/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZR:184` 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 7:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.183/) - next →: [Ezra 7:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.185/) - ↑ back to [Ezra 7:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.24/)