--- title: Ezekiel 8:5 (JPS 1917) — Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way to… · tree and pragmatics description: Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north.' So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. Who acts: GOD, I. 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So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. **Who acts:** GOD, I · **What happens:** say, lift up, image · **To what, where:** eyes, jealousy, entry · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Ezekiel 8:5 · 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 (GOD, I), 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:151 # text = Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north.' So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 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 : _ 12 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 8 Son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 vocative _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 toward toward ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 24 So so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 mine mine PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 toward toward ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 behold behold INTJ UH _ 38 discourse _ _ 38 northward northward ADV RB _ 26 conj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 46 image image NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 jealousy jealousy NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 entry entry NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | GOD | | | | then | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **lift up** | infinitive | | thine eyes | | | now | Son of man *vocative*; the way toward the north *obl:unmarked* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 3 | **lift up** | past | I | mine eyes | | | | the way toward the north *obl:unmarked* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 4 | **image** | | | jealousy | | the entry | | | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient in=place | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם שָׂא־נָ֥א עֵינֶ֖יךָ דֶּ֣רֶךְ צָפ֑וֹנָה וָאֶשָּׂ֤א עֵינַי֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ צָפ֔וֹנָה וְהִנֵּ֤ה מִצָּפוֹן֙ לְשַׁ֣עַר הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ סֵ֛מֶל הַקִּנְאָ֥ה הַזֶּ֖ה בַּבִּאָֽה׃ [Ezekiel 8:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:151` 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. - ← previous: [Ezekiel 8:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.150/) - next →: [Ezekiel 8:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.152/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 8:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.5/)