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title: Ezekiel 47:4 (JPS 1917) — Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through waters t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the loins. Who acts: man, me, waters. Ezekiel 47:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 47:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the loins.

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**Who acts:** man, me, waters · **What happens:** measure, cause, pass, be · **To what, where:** thousand, me, waters

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This is Ezekiel 47:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (man, me, waters), 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:1257
# text = Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the loins.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thousand	thousand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	loins	loin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | man | a thousand |  |  | again |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thousand=Value |
| 2 | **cause** | past | man *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  | waters |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through water=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | waters |  |  |  |  | to the loins | 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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וַיָּ֣מָד אֶ֔לֶף וַיַּעֲבִרֵ֥נִי בַמַּ֖יִם מַ֣יִם בִּרְכָּ֑יִם וַיָּ֣מָד אֶ֔לֶף וַיַּעֲבִרֵ֖נִי מֵ֥י מָתְנָֽיִם׃

[Ezekiel 47:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1256/)
2. **Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the loins.**

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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:1257` 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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