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title: Ezra 10:9 (JPS 1917) — Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain. Who acts: 
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# Ezra 10:9 · JPS 1917

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Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

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**Who acts:** men, substance, people · **What happens:** gather, be, sit, tremble · **To what, where:** men, ninth month, broad place

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This is Ezra 10:9 · 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 (men, substance, 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:250
# text = Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	before	before	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
49	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	52	case	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	fixed	_	_
51	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	det	_	_
52	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **gather** | past | all men of Judah and Benjamin | men *= man* |  |  | then; day | unto Jerusalem; together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | substance | the ninth month |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | past | all people |  |  | the broad place | before the house of God |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 4 | **tremble** | gerund | all people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | because this matter and the great rain | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ כָל־אַנְשֵֽׁי־יְהוּדָה֩ וּבִנְיָמִ֨ן ׀ יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם לִשְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת הַיָּמִ֗ים ה֛וּא חֹ֥דֶשׁ הַתְּשִׁיעִ֖י בְּעֶשְׂרִ֣ים בַּחֹ֑דֶשׁ וַיֵּשְׁב֣וּ כָל־הָעָ֗ם בִּרְחוֹב֙ בֵּ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים מַרְעִידִ֥ים עַל־הַדָּבָ֖ר וּמֵהַגְּשָׁמִֽים׃פ

[Ezra 10:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.9/)

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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:250` 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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