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title: Ezra 8:16 (JPS 1917) — Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, teachers. Who acts: I. Ezra 8:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Ezra 8:16 · JPS 1917

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Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, teachers.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** send

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This is Ezra 8:16 · 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 (I), 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:205
# text = Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, teachers.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Eliezer	Eliezer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ariel	Ariel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Shemaiah	Shemaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Elnathan	Elnathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Jarib	Jarib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Elnathan	Elnathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Zechariah	Zechariah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Meshullam	Meshullam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	appos	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
40	also	also	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Joiarib	Joiarib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Elnathan	Elnathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **send** | past | I |  |  |  | then | for Eliezer; for Ariel; for Shemaiah and Elnathan and Jarib and Elnathan and Nathan and Zechariah and Meshullam; for Joiarib and Elnathan and teachers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֡ה לֶאֱלִיעֶ֡זֶר לַאֲרִיאֵ֡ל לִֽ֠שְׁמַעְיָה וּלְאֶלְנָתָ֨ן וּלְיָרִ֜יב וּלְאֶלְנָתָ֧ן וּלְנָתָ֛ן וְלִזְכַרְיָ֥ה וְלִמְשֻׁלָּ֖ם רָאשִׁ֑ים וּלְיוֹיָרִ֥יב וּלְאֶלְנָתָ֖ן מְבִינִֽים׃

[Ezra 8:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.16/)

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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:205` 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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