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title: Ezekiel 40:5 (JPS 1917) — And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in th… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezekiel 40:5 · JPS 1917

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And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand-breadth each; so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed, and the height, one reed.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** measure · **To what, where:** breadth

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This is Ezekiel 40:5 · 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 (man), 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:EZK:1053
# text = And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand-breadth each; so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed, and the height, one reed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	amod	_	_
22	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	cubit	cubit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
36	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	55	nummod	_	_
55	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	appos	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **measure** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **measure** | past | man | the breadth of the building and one reed and the height |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme breadth=Value |

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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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וְהִנֵּ֥ה חוֹמָ֛ה מִח֥וּץ לַבַּ֖יִת סָבִ֣יב ׀ סָבִ֑יב וּבְיַ֨ד הָאִ֜ישׁ קְנֵ֣ה הַמִּדָּ֗ה שֵׁשׁ־אַמּ֤וֹת בָּֽאַמָּה֙ וָטֹ֔פַח וַיָּ֜מָד אֶת־רֹ֤חַב הַבִּנְיָן֙ קָנֶ֣ה אֶחָ֔ד וְקוֹמָ֖ה קָנֶ֥ה אֶחָֽד׃

[Ezekiel 40:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.5/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:1053` 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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