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title: Ezekiel 6:4 (JPS 1917) — And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be… · tree and pragmatics
description: And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. Who acts: altars, I, your. Ezekiel 6:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 6:4 · JPS 1917

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And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

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**Who acts:** altars, I, your · **What happens:** become, break, cast down, image · **To what, where:** sun images, slain men, idols

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This is Ezekiel 6:4 · 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 (altars, I, your), 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:109
# text = And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	altars	altar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	idols	idol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | shall | your altars |  |  |  |  | desolate *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | shall · passive |  | your sun images |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **cast down** | future | I | your slain men |  | your idols |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent man=Theme before idol=Destination |
| 4 | **image** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ מִזְבְּח֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם וְנִשְׁבְּר֖וּ חַמָּֽנֵיכֶ֑ם וְהִפַּלְתִּי֙ חַלְלֵיכֶ֔ם לִפְנֵ֖י גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם׃

[Ezekiel 6:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.6.4/)

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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:109` 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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