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title: Ezekiel 42:4 (JPS 1917) — And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a w… · tree and pragmatics
description: And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. Who acts: doors. Ezekiel 42:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 42:4 · JPS 1917

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And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

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**Who acts:** doors · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** walk

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This is Ezekiel 42:4 · 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 (doors), 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:1128
# text = And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	inward	inward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	cubit	cubit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 |  | a walk and the north |  |  | before the chambers | of ten cubits  breadth; inward *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | cubits's doors |  |  |  |  | toward the north | tree rules |

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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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וְלִפְנֵ֨י הַלְּשָׁכ֜וֹת מַהֲלַךְ֩ עֶ֨שֶׂר אַמּ֥וֹת רֹ֙חַב֙ אֶל־הַפְּנִימִ֔ית דֶּ֖רֶךְ אַמָּ֣ה אֶחָ֑ת וּפִתְחֵיהֶ֖ם לַצָּפֽוֹן׃

[Ezekiel 42:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.42.4/)

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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:1128` 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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