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title: Ezra 2:59 (JPS 1917) — And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not tell their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: Who acts: these, children. Ezra 2:59 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezra 2:59 · JPS 1917

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And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not tell their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

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**Who acts:** these, children · **What happens:** be, go up, not tell · **To what, where:** children, Tel melah, houses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezra 2:59 · 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 (these, children), 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:71
# text = And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not tell their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Tel	Tel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
11	melah	melah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Tel	tel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	harsa	harsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Cherub	Cherub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Addan	Addan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Immer	Immer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	'	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	ccomp	_	_
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	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 | **is a** | past | these | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go up** | past |  |  |  | Tel melah and Tel harsa and Cherub and Addan and Immer |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | could | children *= child* | children's fathers's houses and children's seed |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | of Israel | tree rules |

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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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וְאֵ֗לֶּה הָֽעֹלִים֙ מִתֵּ֥ל מֶ֙לַח֙ תֵּ֥ל מֶ֙לַח֙ תֵּ֣ל חַרְשָׁ֔א תֵּ֣ל חַרְשָׁ֔א כְּר֥וּב אַדָּ֖ן אִמֵּ֑ר וְלֹ֣א יָֽכְל֗וּ לְהַגִּ֤יד בֵּית־אֲבוֹתָם֙ וְזַרְעָ֔ם אִ֥ם מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הֵֽם׃

[Ezra 2:59: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.59/)

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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:71` 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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