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title: Ezra 10:5 (JPS 1917) — Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. Who acts: Ezra, chiefs. Ezra 10:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 10:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word.

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**Who acts:** Ezra, chiefs · **What happens:** arise, make, swear, do, accord · **To what, where:** chiefs

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This is Ezra 10:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, chiefs), 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:245
# text = Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Levites	Levites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **arise** | past | Ezra |  |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | Ezra *not said here* | the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swear** | to-infinitive | the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | would | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  |  | accord this word | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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וַיָּ֣קָם עֶזְרָ֡א וַיַּשְׁבַּ֣ע אֶת־שָׂרֵי֩ הַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים הַלְוִיִּ֜ם וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לַעֲשׂ֛וֹת כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּ֖ה וַיִּשָּׁבֵֽעוּ׃

[Ezra 10:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word.**
2. [So they swore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.246/)

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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:245` 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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