--- title: Ezra 2:68 (JPS 1917) — And some of the heads of fathers' houses, when they came to the hous… · tree and pragmatics description: And some of the heads of fathers' houses, when they came to the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place; Who acts: fathers, house, some. 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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 (fathers, house, some), 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:80 # text = And some of the heads of fathers' houses, when they came to the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ' 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 acl:relcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 willingly willingly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | fathers *= father* | | | the house of the LORD | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is** | present | the house of the LORD | | | Jerusalem | | | tree rules | | 3 | **offer** | past | some | | | | | for the house of God *goal*; willingly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for house=Goal | | 4 | **set up** | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | house | | house's place | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Destination | 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} וּמֵרָאשֵׁי֙ הָֽאָב֔וֹת בְּבוֹאָ֕ם לְבֵ֥ית יְהוָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם הִֽתְנַדְּבוּ֙ לְבֵ֣ית הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים לְהַעֲמִיד֖וֹ עַל־מְכוֹנֽוֹ׃ [Ezra 2:68: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.68/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZR:80` 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. - ← previous: [Ezra 2:67 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.79/) - next →: [Ezra 2:69 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.81/) - ↑ back to [Ezra 2:68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.68/)