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title: Ezekiel 40:16 (JPS 1917) — And there were narrow windows to the cells and to their posts within… · tree and pragmatics
description: And there were narrow windows to the cells and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and upon each post were palm-trees. Who acts: windows. Ezekiel 40:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 40:16 · JPS 1917

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And there were narrow windows to the cells and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and upon each post were palm-trees.

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**Who acts:** windows · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** palm trees

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This is Ezekiel 40:16 · 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 (windows), 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:1064
# text = And there were narrow windows to the cells and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and upon each post were palm-trees.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	inward	inward	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	_
39	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | past | windows |  |  |  |  | inward, round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | palm trees |  |  |  | upon each post | 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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וְחַלֹּנ֣וֹת אֲטֻמ֣וֹת אֶֽל־הַתָּאִ֡ים וְאֶל֩ אֵלֵיהֵ֨מָה לִפְנִ֤ימָה לַשַּׁ֙עַר֙ סָבִ֣יב ׀ סָבִ֔יב וְכֵ֖ן לָאֵֽלַמּ֑וֹת וְחַלּוֹנ֞וֹת סָבִ֤יב ׀ סָבִיב֙ לִפְנִ֔ימָה וְאֶל־אַ֖יִל תִּמֹרִֽים׃

[Ezekiel 40:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.16/)

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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:1064` 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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