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title: Ezekiel 40:38 (JPS 1917) — And a chamber with the entry thereof was by the posts at the gates;… · tree and pragmatics
description: And a chamber with the entry thereof was by the posts at the gates; there was the burnt-offering to be washed. Who acts: chamber, burnt offering. Ezekiel 40:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 40:38 · JPS 1917

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And a chamber with the entry thereof was by the posts at the gates; there was the burnt-offering to be washed.

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**Who acts:** chamber, burnt offering · **What happens:** be, burn, wash · **To what, where:** gates

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This is Ezekiel 40:38 · 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 (chamber, burnt offering), 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:1086
# text = And a chamber with the entry thereof was by the posts at the gates; there was the burnt-offering to be washed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	entry	entry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | a chamber with the entry |  |  | the gates |  | by the posts | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | the burnt offering |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wash** | to-infinitive · passive | the burnt offering *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V» |

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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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וְלִשְׁכָּ֣ה וּפִתְחָ֔הּ בְּאֵילִ֖ים הַשְּׁעָרִ֑ים שָׁ֖ם יָדִ֥יחוּ אֶת־הָעֹלָֽה׃

[Ezekiel 40:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.38/)

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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:1086` 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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