--- title: Ezekiel 8:11 (JPS 1917) — And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house o… · tree and pragmatics description: And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. Who acts: seventy men, Jaazaniah, thick cloud. 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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 (seventy men, Jaazaniah, thick cloud), 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:157 # text = And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 there there PRON EX _ 3 expl _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 elders elder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 Jaazaniah Jaazaniah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Shaphan Shaphan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 censer censer NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 incense incense NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 46 up up ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel | | | there | before idols *= idol* | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location | | 2 | **stand** | past | Jaazaniah | | | the midst of idols | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location | | 3 | **go up** | past | a thick cloud of incense | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **cloud** | | | incense | | | | | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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} וְשִׁבְעִ֣ים אִ֣ישׁ מִזִּקְנֵ֣י בֵֽית־יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל וְיַאֲזַנְיָ֨הוּ בֶן־שָׁפָ֜ן עֹמֵ֤ד בְּתוֹכָם֙ עֹמְדִ֣ים לִפְנֵיהֶ֔ם וְאִ֥ישׁ מִקְטַרְתּ֖וֹ בְּיָד֑וֹ וַעֲתַ֥ר עֲנַֽן־הַקְּטֹ֖רֶת עֹלֶֽה׃ [Ezekiel 8:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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