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title: Ezekiel 8:8 (JPS 1917) — Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, dig now in the wall'; and when I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, dig now in the wall'; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. Who acts: GOD, I. Ezekiel 8:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 8:8 · JPS 1917

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Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, dig now in the wall'; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

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**Who acts:** GOD, I · **What happens:** say, dig, digg, behold · **To what, where:** wall, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 8:8 · 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 (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:154
# text = Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, dig now in the wall'; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
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	dig	dig	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	digged	digg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
28	behold	behold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | 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 | **dig** | infinitive |  |  |  | the wall | now | Son of man *vocative* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wall=Location |
| 3 | **digg** | past · perfect | I |  |  | the wall |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **behold** | infinitive | GOD *not said here* | a door |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus |

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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 אֵלַ֔י בֶּן־אָדָ֖ם חֲתָר־נָ֣א בַקִּ֑יר וָאֶחְתֹּ֣ר בַּקִּ֔יר וְהִנֵּ֖ה פֶּ֥תַח אֶחָֽד׃

[Ezekiel 8:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.8/)

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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:154` 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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