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title: Ezra 10:1 (JPS 1917) — Now while Ezra prayed, and made confession, weeping and casting hims… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezra 10:1 · JPS 1917

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Now while Ezra prayed, and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore.

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**Who acts:** Ezra, people · **What happens:** pray, make, weep, cast down, gather · **To what, where:** confession, Ezra, house, great congregation

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This is Ezra 10:1 · 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 (Ezra, people), 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:241
# text = Now while Ezra prayed, and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	together	together	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
41	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
44	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
45	very	very	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	sore	sore	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	44	advmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **pray** | past | Ezra |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **make** | past | Ezra *not said here* | confession |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset confession=Product |
| 3 | **weep** | gerund | Ezra *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cast down** | gerund | Ezra *not said here* | Ezra |  | the house of God |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme before house=Destination |
| 5 | **gather** | past · passive |  | a great congregation of men and women and children |  | there | now | unto Ezra; of Israel; together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **weep** | past | the people |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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וּכְהִתְפַּלֵּ֤ל עֶזְרָא֙ וּכְ֨הִתְוַדֹּת֔וֹבֹּכֶה֙ וּמִתְנַפֵּ֔ל לִפְנֵ֖י בֵּ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים נִקְבְּצוּ֩ אֵלָ֨יו מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֜ל קָהָ֣ל רַב־מְאֹ֗ד אֲנָשִׁ֤ים וְנָשִׁים֙ וִֽילָדִ֔ים כִּֽי־בָכ֥וּ הָעָ֖ם הַרְבֵּה־בֶֽכֶה׃ס

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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:241` of Mova's parse database.

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