--- title: Ezra 8:28 (JPS 1917) — And I said unto them: 'Ye are holy unto the LORD, and the vessels ar… · tree and pragmatics description: And I said unto them: 'Ye are holy unto the LORD, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill-offering unto the LORD, the God of your fathers. Who acts: I, Ye, vessels, silver. 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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 (I, Ye, vessels, silver), 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:217 # text = And I said unto them: 'Ye are holy unto the LORD, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill-offering unto the LORD, the God of your fathers. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 11 unto unto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 vessels vessel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 freewill freewill NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 32 unto unto ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I | | | | | unto vessels *= vessel* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Ye | | | | | unto the LORD; holy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the vessels | | | | | holy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | the silver and the gold | a freewill offering | | | | unto the LORD | tree rules | 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} וָאֹמְרָ֣ה אֲלֵהֶ֗ם אַתֶּ֥ם קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ לַיהוָ֔ה וְהַכֵּלִ֖ים קֹ֑דֶשׁ וְהַכֶּ֤סֶף וְהַזָּהָב֙ נְדָבָ֔ה לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ [Ezra 8:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.28/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZR:217` 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 8:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.216/) - next →: [Ezra 8:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.218/) - ↑ back to [Ezra 8:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.28/)