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title: Ezekiel 47:8 (JPS 1917) — Then said he unto me: 'These waters issue forth toward the eastern r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said he unto me: 'These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and when they shall enter into the sea, into the sea of the putrid waters, the waters shall be healed. Who acts: river, waters. Ezekiel 47:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Ezekiel 47:8 · JPS 1917

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Then said he unto me: 'These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and when they shall enter into the sea, into the sea of the putrid waters, the waters shall be healed.

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**Who acts:** river, waters · **What happens:** say, issue, go down, enter, heal · **To what, where:** Arabah, sea, waters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 47:8 · 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 (river, 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:1261
# text = Then said he unto me: 'These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and when they shall enter into the sea, into the sea of the putrid waters, the waters shall be healed.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	issue	issue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
11	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Arabah	Arabah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	29	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	putrid	putrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | river |  |  |  | then | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **issue** | present | this waters |  |  |  |  | toward the eastern region; forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go down** | shall | this waters *not said here* |  |  | the Arabah |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **enter** | shall | waters *= water* |  |  | the sea |  | into the sea of the putrid waters | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial\_Location into sea=Destination |
| 5 | **heal** | shall · passive |  | the waters |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י הַמַּ֤יִם הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ יוֹצְאִ֗ים אֶל־הַגְּלִילָה֙ הַקַּדְמוֹנָ֔ה וְיָרְד֖וּ עַל־הָֽעֲרָבָ֑ה וּבָ֣אוּ הַיָּ֔מָּה אֶל־הַיָּ֥מָּה הַמּֽוּצָאִ֖ים וְנִרְפּ֥וּ הַמָּֽיִם׃

[Ezekiel 47:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.8/)

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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:1261` 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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