--- title: Ezekiel 8:16 (JPS 1917) — And He brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, beh… · tree and pragmatics description: And He brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the eas --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.162/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Ezekiel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/) / [chapter 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/8/) / [8:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.16/) / JPS 1 # Ezekiel 8:16 · JPS 1917 And He brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. **Who acts:** LORD, faces · **What happens:** bring, be, worship · **To what, where:** me, inner court, five men, door, sun This is Ezekiel 8:16 · 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 (LORD, faces), 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:162 # text = And He brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 inner inner ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 'S 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 behold behold INTJ UH _ 41 discourse _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 temple temple NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 between between ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 porch porch NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 37 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 conj _ _ 41 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 46 toward toward ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 temple temple NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 54 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ _ 56 toward toward ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ _ 59 ; ; PUNCT : _ 62 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 61 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 62 worshipped worship VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obj _ _ 65 toward toward ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 68 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | LORD | me | | the inner court of the LORD's house | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into court=Destination | | 2 | **is a** | past | LORD *not said here* | five men | | the door of the temple of the LORD between the porch and the altar | | with porch's backs toward the temple of the LORD and backs's faces toward the east | tree rules | | 3 | **worship** | past | faces *= face* | the sun | | | | toward the east | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | 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} וַיָּבֵ֣א אֹתִ֗י אֶל־חֲצַ֣ר בֵּית־יְהוָה֮ הַפְּנִימִית֒ וְהִנֵּה־פֶ֜תַח הֵיכַ֣ל יְהוָ֗ה בֵּ֤ין הָֽאוּלָם֙ וּבֵ֣ין הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ כְּעֶשְׂרִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה אִ֑ישׁ אֲחֹ֨רֵיהֶ֜ם אֶל־הֵיכַ֤ל יְהוָה֙ וּפְנֵיהֶ֣ם קֵ֔דְמָה וְהֵ֛מָּה מִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתֶ֥ם קֵ֖דְמָה לַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃ [Ezekiel 8:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:162` 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 8:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.161/) - next →: [Ezekiel 8:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.163/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 8:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.16/)