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title: Ezekiel 42:16 (JPS 1917) — He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reed… · tree and pragmatics
description: He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. Who acts: chamber. Ezekiel 42:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 42:16 · JPS 1917

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He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

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**Who acts:** chamber · **What happens:** measure · **To what, where:** east side

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This is Ezekiel 42:16 · 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 (chamber), 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:1140
# text = He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	measuring	measuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	measuring	measuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
19	round	round	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **measure** | past | chamber | the east side |  |  |  | with the measuring reed; with the measuring reed | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme side=Value |

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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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מָדַ֛ד ר֥וּחַ הַקָּדִ֖ים בִּקְנֵ֣ה הַמִּדָּ֑ה חֲמֵשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת קָנִ֛ים בִּקְנֵ֥ה הַמִּדָּ֖ה סָבִֽיב׃

[Ezekiel 42:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.42.16/)

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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:1140` 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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