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title: Ezekiel 42:20 (JPS 1917) — He measured it by the four sides; it had a wall round about, the len… · tree and pragmatics
description: He measured it by the four sides; it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common. Who acts: chamber, reed. Ezekiel 42:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Ezekiel 42:20 · JPS 1917

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He measured it by the four sides; it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

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**Who acts:** chamber, reed · **What happens:** measure, have, make, be · **To what, where:** reed, wall, separation

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This is Ezekiel 42:20 · 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, reed), 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:1144
# text = He measured it by the four sides; it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.
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	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
18	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	_
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	between	between	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nmod	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
41	.	.	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 | reed |  |  |  | by the four sides | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value |
| 2 | **have** | past | reed | a wall |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | reed *not said here* | a separation |  |  |  | between that | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset separation=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | holy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | common *property* | 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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לְאַרְבַּ֨ע רוּח֜וֹת מְדָד֗וֹ ח֤וֹמָה לוֹ֙ סָבִ֣יב ׀ סָבִ֔יב אֹ֚רֶךְ חֲמֵ֣שׁ מֵא֔וֹת וְרֹ֖חַב חֲמֵ֣שׁ מֵא֑וֹת לְהַבְדִּ֕יל בֵּ֥ין הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁ לְחֹֽל׃

[Ezekiel 42:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.42.20/)

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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:1144` 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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