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title: Ezra 9:14 (JPS 1917) — shall we again break Thy commandments, and make marriages with the p… · tree and pragmatics
description: shall we again break Thy commandments, and make marriages with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not Thou be angry with us till Thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape? Who acts: we, peoples, Thou, remnant. Ezra 9:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependenc
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# Ezra 9:14 · JPS 1917

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shall we again break Thy commandments, and make marriages with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not Thou be angry with us till Thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

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**Who acts:** we, peoples, Thou, remnant, Thy · **What happens:** break, make, do, not be, consume, be · **To what, where:** commandments, marriages, abominations, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezra 9:14 · 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 (we, peoples, Thou, remnant), 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:239
# text = shall we again break Thy commandments, and make marriages with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not Thou be angry with us till Thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
1	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	marriages	marriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	abominations	abomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
19	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
28	hadst	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
30	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	36	mark	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
38	remnant	remnant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	41	cc	_	_
41	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	acl	_	_
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=suggest, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | shall | we | Thy commandments |  |  | again |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer commandment=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | we *not said here* | marriages |  |  |  | with the peoples | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset marriage=Product |
| 3 | **do** | present | the peoples | this abominations |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abomination=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **is** | would | Thou |  |  |  |  | with us; angry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **consume** | past · perfect | Thou | us |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Asset |
| 6 | **be** | should | no remnant |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **escape** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **command** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=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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הֲנָשׁוּב֙ לְהָפֵ֣ר מִצְוֺתֶ֔יךָ וּ֨לְהִתְחַתֵּ֔ן בְּעַמֵּ֥י הַתֹּעֵב֖וֹת הָאֵ֑לֶּה הֲל֤וֹא תֶֽאֱנַף־בָּ֙נוּ֙ עַד־כַּלֵּ֔ה לְאֵ֥ין שְׁאֵרִ֖ית וּפְלֵיטָֽה׃פ

[Ezra 9:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.9.14/)

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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:239` of Mova's parse database.

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