--- title: Ezra 4:3 (JPS 1917) — But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' ho… · tree and pragmatics description: But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, said unto them: 'Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.' Who acts: Zeru --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.98/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Ezra](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR/4/) / [4:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.3/) / JPS 1 # Ezra 4:3 · JPS 1917 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, said unto them: 'Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.' **Who acts:** Zerubbabel, Ye, we, king Cyrus · **What happens:** say, have, do, build, command · **To what, where:** nothing, house, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Ezra 4:3 · 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 (Zerubbabel, Ye, we, king Cyrus), 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:98 # text = But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, said unto them: 'Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.' 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 2 Zerubbabel Zerubbabel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Jeshua Jeshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 ' 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 unto unto ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 26 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 27 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 unto unto ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 41 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 42 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 41 nmod _ _ 43 together together ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 46 unto unto ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 appos _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 55 as as SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 56 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 Cyrus Cyrus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 nsubj _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 appos _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 nmod _ _ 62 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 63 commanded command VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 45 advcl _ _ 64 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 63 obj _ _ 65 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 66 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of fathers's houses of Israel | | | | | unto houses *= house* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | Ye | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | Ye *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | with us | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **build** | to-infinitive | Ye *not said here* | a house | | | | unto our God | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | | 5 | **build** | future | we | | | | | unto the LORD | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **command** | present · perfect | king Cyrus | us | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Theme | 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} וַיֹּאמֶר֩ לָהֶ֨ם זְרֻבָּבֶ֜ל וְיֵשׁ֗וּעַ וּשְׁאָ֨ר רָאשֵׁ֤י הָֽאָבוֹת֙ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹֽא־לָ֣כֶם וָלָ֔נוּ לִבְנ֥וֹת בַּ֖יִת לֵאלֹהֵ֑ינוּ כִּי֩ אֲנַ֨חְנוּ יַ֜חַד נִבְנֶ֗ה לַֽיהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר צִוָּ֔נוּ הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ כּ֥וֹרֶשׁ מֶֽלֶךְ־פָּרָֽס׃ [Ezra 4:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZR:98` 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 4:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.97/) - next →: [Ezra 4:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.99/) - ↑ back to [Ezra 4:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.3/)