--- title: Ezekiel 11:1 (JPS 1917) — Then a spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the… · tree and pragmatics description: Then a spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward; and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 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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 (spirit, house, 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:200 # text = Then a spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward; and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 unto unto ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 east east ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 'S 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 looketh look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 eastward eastward ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 behold behold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 conj _ _ 36 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nmod _ _ 46 Jaazaniah Jaazaniah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 appos _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 Azzur Azzur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 Pelatiah Pelatiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 appos _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 Benaiah Benaiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 nmod _ _ 58 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 59 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 appos _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 nmod _ _ 63 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **lift up** | past | a spirit | me | | | then | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **bring** | past | a spirit *not said here* | | me | | | unto the east gate of the LORD's house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 3 | **look** | present | the LORD's house | | | | | eastward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **behold** | infinitive | a spirit *not said here* | five men | | the door of the gate | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** | past | I | Jaazaniah and Pelatiah | | the midst of men | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jaazaniah=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} וַתִּשָּׂ֨א אֹתִ֜י ר֗וּחַ וַתָּבֵ֣א אֹ֠תִי אֶל־שַׁ֨עַר בֵּית־יְהוָ֤ה הַקַּדְמוֹנִי֙ הַפּוֹנֶ֣ה קָדִ֔ימָה וְהִנֵּה֙ בְּפֶ֣תַח הַשַּׁ֔עַר עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה אִ֑ישׁ וָאֶרְאֶ֨ה בְתוֹכָ֜ם אֶת־יַאֲזַנְיָ֧ה בֶן־עַזֻּ֛ר וְאֶת־פְּלַטְיָ֥הוּ בֶן־בְּנָיָ֖הוּ שָׂרֵ֖י הָעָֽם׃פ [Ezekiel 11:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.11.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:200` 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 10:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.199/) - next →: [Ezekiel 11:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.201/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 11:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.11.1/)