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title: Ezekiel 44:25 (JPS 1917) — And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves; but fo… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezekiel 44:25 · JPS 1917

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And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

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**Who acts:** children, sister · **What happens:** come, defile, have · **To what, where:** children, husband

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This is Ezekiel 44:25 · 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 (children, sister), 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:1197
# text = And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	defile	defile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
39	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	defile	defile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
44	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **come** | shall | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | near no dead person | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near person=Location |
| 2 | **defile** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present · perfect | sister | no husband |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
| 4 | **defile** | may | children *= child* | children *= child* |  |  |  | for father or mother or son or daughter; for brother or sister | 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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וְאֶל־מֵ֣ת אָדָ֔ם לֹ֥א יָב֖וֹא לְטָמְאָ֑ה כִּ֣י אִם־לְאָ֡ב וּ֠לְאֵם וּלְבֵ֨ן וּלְבַ֜ת לְאָ֗ח וּלְאָח֛וֹת אֲשֶֽׁר־לֹא־הָיְתָ֥ה לְאִ֖ישׁ יִטַּמָּֽאוּ׃

[Ezekiel 44:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.25/)

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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:1197` 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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