--- title: Ezekiel 40:26 (JPS 1917) — And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof we… · tree and pragmatics description: And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them; and it had palm-trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof. Who acts: seven steps, arches, measure. 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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 (seven steps, arches, measure), 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:1074 # text = And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them; and it had palm-trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 arches arch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 15 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 before before ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 appos _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 27 conj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 upon upon ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 41 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | seven steps | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go up** | to-infinitive | seven steps *not said here* | | measure | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | past | the arches | | | | before arches *= arch* | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | measure | palm trees | | | | upon the posts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | 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} וּמַעֲל֤וֹת שִׁבְעָה֙ עֹֽלוֹתָ֔יו וְאֵֽלַמָּ֖יו לִפְנֵיהֶ֑ם וְתִמֹרִ֣ים ל֗וֹ אֶחָ֥ד מִפּ֛וֹ וְאֶחָ֥ד מִפּ֖וֹ אֶל־אֵילָֽיו׃ [Ezekiel 40:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:1074` 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: [Ezekiel 40:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1073/) - next →: [Ezekiel 40:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1075/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 40:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.26/)