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title: Ezra 8:20 (JPS 1917) — and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the se… · tree and pragmatics
description: and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim; all of them were mentioned by name. Who acts: David, name. Ezra 8:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 8:20 · JPS 1917

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and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim; all of them were mentioned by name.

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**Who acts:** David, name · **What happens:** give, mention, service · **To what, where:** Nethinim, all, Levites

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This is Ezra 8:20 · 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 (David, name), 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:209
# text = and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim; all of them were mentioned by name.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Nethinim	Nethinim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
7	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Levites	Levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
24	Nethinim	Nethinim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **give** | past · perfect | David and the princes | the Nethinim |  |  |  | for the service of the Levites | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent whom=Theme for service=Asset |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | past · passive | name | all |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 3 | **service** |  |  | the Levites |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וּמִן־הַנְּתִינִ֗ים שֶׁנָּתַ֨ן דָּוִ֤יד וְהַשָּׂרִים֙ לַעֲבֹדַ֣ת הַלְוִיִּ֔ם נְתִינִ֖ים מָאתַ֣יִם וְעֶשְׂרִ֑ים כֻּלָּ֖ם נִקְּב֥וּ בְשֵׁמֽוֹת׃

[Ezra 8:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.20/)

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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:209` 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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