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title: Ezra 10:16 (JPS 1917) — And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers' houses, after th… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezra 10:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers' houses, after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were separated; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

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**Who acts:** children, fathers · **What happens:** separate, sit down, examine, name · **To what, where:** Ezra, matter

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This is Ezra 10:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (children, fathers), 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:258
# text = And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers' houses, after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were separated; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
2	Ezra	Ezra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	down	down	ADV	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	amod	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	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 | **separate** | past · passive |  | Ezra |  |  | after fathers's fathers's houses | with certain heads of fathers's houses | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **examine** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  | fathers *= father* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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וַיַּֽעֲשׂוּ־כֵן֮ בְּנֵ֣י הַגּוֹלָה֒ וַיִּבָּדְלוּ֩ עֶזְרָ֨א הַכֹּהֵ֜ן אֲנָשִׁ֨ים רָאשֵׁ֧י הָאָב֛וֹת לְבֵ֥ית אֲבֹתָ֖ם וְכֻלָּ֣ם בְּשֵׁמ֑וֹת וַיֵּשְׁב֗וּ בְּי֤וֹם אֶחָד֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָעֲשִׂירִ֔י לְדַרְי֖וֹשׁ הַדָּבָֽר׃

[Ezra 10:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And the children of the captivity did so.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.257/)
2. **And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers' houses, after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were separated; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.**

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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:258` of Mova's parse database.

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