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title: Ezekiel 40:41 (JPS 1917) — Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon to slay the sacrifices. Who acts: Four tables. Ezekiel 40:41 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 40:41 · JPS 1917

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Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon to slay the sacrifices.

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**Who acts:** Four tables · **What happens:** be, slay · **To what, where:** side, sacrifices

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This is Ezekiel 40:41 · 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 (Four tables), 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:1089
# text = Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon to slay the sacrifices.
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Four tables |  |  | this side and four tables on that side by the side of the gate |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | to-infinitive | Four tables *not said here* | the sacrifices |  |  |  | whereupon *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Patient |

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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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אַרְבָּעָ֨ה שֻׁלְחָנ֜וֹת מִפֹּ֗ה וְאַרְבָּעָ֧ה שֻׁלְחָנ֛וֹת מִפֹּ֖ה לְכֶ֣תֶף הַשָּׁ֑עַר שְׁמוֹנָ֥ה שֻׁלְחָנ֖וֹת אֲלֵיהֶ֥ם יִשְׁחָֽטוּ׃

[Ezekiel 40:41: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.41/)

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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:1089` 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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