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title: Ezra 1:8 (JPS 1917) — even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithr… · tree and pragmatics
description: even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. Who acts: Cyrus king. Ezra 1:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 1:8 · JPS 1917

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even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

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**Who acts:** Cyrus king · **What happens:** bring, number · **To what, where:** those, hands

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This is Ezra 1:8 · 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 (Cyrus king), 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:7
# text = even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
1	even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	Cyrus	Cyrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Mithredath	Mithredath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	numbered	number	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Sheshbazzar	Sheshbazzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · do-support | Cyrus king of Persia | those |  |  |  | by the hand of Mithredath; forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **number** | past | Cyrus king of Persia *not said here* | hands *= hand* |  |  |  | unto Sheshbazzar | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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וַיּֽוֹצִיאֵ֗םכּ֚וֹרֶשׁ מֶ֣לֶךְ פָּרַ֔ס עַל־יַ֖ד מִתְרְדָ֣ת הַגִּזְבָּ֑ר וַֽיִּסְפְּרֵם֙ לְשֵׁשְׁבַּצַּ֔ר הַנָּשִׂ֖יא לִיהוּדָֽה׃

[Ezra 1:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.1.8/)

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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:7` 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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