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title: Ezekiel 40:49 (JPS 1917) — The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cu… · tree and pragmatics
description: The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and it was by steps that it was ascended; and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. Who acts: length, it, pillars. Ezekiel 40:49 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Ezekiel 40:49 · JPS 1917

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The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and it was by steps that it was ascended; and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.

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**Who acts:** length, it, pillars · **What happens:** be, ascend · **To what, where:** twenty cubits, length

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This is Ezekiel 40:49 · 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 (length, it, pillars), 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:1097
# text = The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and it was by steps that it was ascended; and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
14	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	ascended	ascend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	csubj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	appos	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	34	conj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
43	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 a** | past | the length of the porch | twenty cubits and the breadth and steps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | by steps | tree rules |
| 3 | **ascend** | past · passive |  | length |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 4 | **be** | past | pillars by the posts |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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אֹ֣רֶךְ הָאֻלָ֞ם עֶשְׂרִ֣ים אַמָּ֗ה וְרֹ֙חַב֙ עַשְׁתֵּ֣י עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה אַמָּ֔ה וּבַֽמַּעֲל֔וֹת אֲשֶׁ֥ר יַעֲל֖וּ אֵלָ֑יו וְעַמֻּדִים֙ אֶל־הָ֣אֵילִ֔ים אֶחָ֥ד מִפֹּ֖ה וְאֶחָ֥ד מִפֹּֽה׃

[Ezekiel 40:49: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.49/)

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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:1097` 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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