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title: Ezra 10:2 (JPS 1917) — And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered a… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezra 10:2 · JPS 1917

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And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra: 'We have broken faith with our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

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**Who acts:** Shecaniah, We, hope · **What happens:** answer, say, break, marry, be, concern · **To what, where:** faith, foreign women, thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezra 10:2 · 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 (Shecaniah, We, hope), 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:242
# text = And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra: 'We have broken faith with our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	Shecaniah	Shecaniah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Jehiel	Jehiel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Elam	Elam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
22	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
25	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
33	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
42	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	45	expl	_	_
45	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
46	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	acl	_	_
50	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
51	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Shecaniah |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Shecaniah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Ezra | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **break** | present · perfect | We | faith |  |  |  | with our God | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent faith=Patient with god=Instrument |
| 4 | **marry** | present · perfect | We *not said here* | foreign women of the peoples of the land |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient |
| 5 | **be** | present | hope for Israel |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **concern** | gerund | hope for Israel *not said here* | this thing |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thing=Experiencer |

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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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וַיַּעַן֩ שְׁכַנְיָ֨ה בֶן־יְחִיאֵ֜ל מִבְּנֵ֤י עֵילָם֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְעֶזְרָ֔א אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ מָעַ֣לְנוּ בֵאלֹהֵ֔ינוּ וַנֹּ֛שֶׁב נָשִׁ֥ים נָכְרִיּ֖וֹת מֵעַמֵּ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ וְעַתָּ֛ה יֵשׁ־מִקְוֶ֥ה לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עַל־זֹֽאת׃

[Ezra 10:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.2/)

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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:242` 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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