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title: Ezra 9:8 (JPS 1917) — And now for a little moment grace hath been shown from the LORD our… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now for a little moment grace hath been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in His holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. Who acts: God. Ezra 9:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Ezra 9:8 · JPS 1917

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And now for a little moment grace hath been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in His holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** show, leave, escape, give, lighten · **To what, where:** grace, remnant, us, nail, holy place, eyes

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This is Ezra 9:8 · 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 (God), 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:233
# text = And now for a little moment grace hath been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in His holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	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	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	remnant	remnant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	may	may	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	lighten	lighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
41	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
46	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	iobj	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	reviving	reviving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	bondage	bondage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · perfect · passive |  | grace |  |  | now; moment | from the LORD | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | a remnant | us |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Theme remnant=Attribute |
| 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive |  | a remnant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | a nail | us | God's holy place |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient nail=Theme |
| 5 | **lighten** | may | our God | our eyes |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 6 | **give** | infinitive | our God *not said here* | a little reviving | us | our bondage |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient reviving=Theme |

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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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וְעַתָּ֡ה כִּמְעַט־רֶגַע֩ הָיְתָ֨ה תְחִנָּ֜ה מֵאֵ֣ת ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ לְהַשְׁאִ֥יר לָ֙נוּ֙ פְּלֵיטָ֔ה וְלָתֶת־לָ֥נוּ יָתֵ֖ד בִּמְק֣וֹם קָדְשׁ֑וֹ לְהָאִ֤יר עֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙ אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ וּלְתִתֵּ֛נוּ מִֽחְיָ֥ה מְעַ֖ט בְּעַבְדֻתֵֽנוּ׃

[Ezra 9:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.9.8/)

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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:233` 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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