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title: Ezekiel 47:5 (JPS 1917) — Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could no… · tree and pragmatics
description: Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through. Who acts: man, thousand, I, waters. Ezekiel 47:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 47:5 · JPS 1917

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Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.

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**Who acts:** man, thousand, I, waters · **What happens:** measure, be, not pass, rise, swim · **To what, where:** thousand, river

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This is Ezekiel 47:5 · 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 (man, thousand, I, 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:1258
# text = Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
1	Afterward	afterward	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	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
37	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **measure** | past | man | a thousand |  |  |  | afterward *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thousand=Value |
| 2 | **is a** | past | thousand | a river |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **pass** | could | I |  |  | a river |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through that=Location |
| 4 | **rise** | past · passive | the waters |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **swim** | to-infinitive | the waters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **pass** | could · passive |  | a river |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |

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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 נַ֕חַל אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־אוּכַ֖ל לַעֲבֹ֑ר כִּֽי־גָא֤וּ הַמַּ֙יִם֙ מֵ֣י שָׂ֔חוּ נַ֖חַל אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־יֵעָבֵֽר׃

[Ezekiel 47:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.5/)

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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:1258` 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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