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title: Ezekiel 42:8 (JPS 1917) — For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits. Who acts: chambers, length. Ezekiel 42:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 42:8 · JPS 1917

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For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.

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**Who acts:** chambers, length · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fifty cubits, hundred cubits

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This is Ezekiel 42:8 · 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 (chambers, length), 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:1132
# text = For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	cubits	cubit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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** | past | the chambers |  |  |  |  | toward the outer court | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the length of the chambers | fifty cubits and hundred cubits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the length of the chambers *not said here* | hundred cubits |  |  | before the temple |  | 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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כִּֽי־אֹ֣רֶךְ הַלְּשָׁכ֗וֹת אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֶחָצֵ֥ר הַחִֽצוֹנָ֖ה חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים אַמָּ֑ה וְהִנֵּ֛ה עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַהֵיכָ֖ל מֵאָ֥ה אַמָּֽה׃

[Ezekiel 42:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.42.8/)

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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:1132` 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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