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title: Ezekiel 1:11 (JPS 1917) — Thus were their faces; and their wings were stretched upward; two wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus were their faces; and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. Who acts: two. Ezekiel 1:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 1:11 · JPS 1917

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Thus were their faces; and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

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**Who acts:** two · **What happens:** be, stretch, join, cover · **To what, where:** faces, wings, two wings, bodies

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This is Ezekiel 1:11 · 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 (two), 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:11
# text = Thus were their faces; and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
26	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 |  | wings's faces |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stretch** | past · passive |  | wings's wings |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **join** | past · passive |  | two wings of every one |  |  |  | one *obl:unmarked* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **cover** | past | two | wings's bodies |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Destination |

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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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וּפְנֵיהֶ֕ם וְכַנְפֵיהֶ֥ם פְּרֻד֖וֹת מִלְמָ֑עְלָה לְאִ֗ישׁ שְׁ֚תַּיִם חֹבְר֣וֹת אִ֔ישׁ וּשְׁתַּ֣יִם מְכַסּ֔וֹת אֵ֖ת גְּוִיֹתֵיהֶֽנָה׃

[Ezekiel 1:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.11/)

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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:11` 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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