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title: Ezra 7:28 (JPS 1917) — and hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors… · tree and pragmatics
description: and hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. Ezra 7:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 7:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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and hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes.

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**What happens:** extended · **To what, where:** mercy

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This is Ezra 7:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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:188
# text = and hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	extended	extended	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **extended** | present · perfect |  | mercy |  |  | before the king and king's counsellors and all king's mighty princes | unto me | tree rules |

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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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וְעָלַ֣י הִטָּה־חֶ֗סֶד לִפְנֵ֤י הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ וְיֽוֹעֲצָ֔יו וּלְכָל־שָׂרֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ הַגִּבֹּרִ֑ים וַאֲנִ֣י הִתְחַזַּ֗קְתִּי כְּיַד־יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהַי֙ עָלַ֔י וָאֶקְבְּצָ֧ה מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֛ל רָאשִׁ֖ים לַעֲל֥וֹת עִמִּֽי׃פ

[Ezra 7:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.28/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **and hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes.**
2. [And I was strengthened according to the hand of the LORD my God upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.189/)

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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:188` 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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