--- title: Ezekiel 1:21 (JPS 1917) — When those went, these went, and when those stood, these stood; and… · tree and pragmatics description: When those went, these went, and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. Who acts: those, these, spirit. Ezekiel 1:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.21/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/1/) / [1:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.21/) / JPS 1 # Ezekiel 1:21 · JPS 1917 When those went, these went, and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. **Who acts:** those, these, spirit · **What happens:** go, stand, lift up, be · **To what, where:** those, earth, wheels This is Ezekiel 1:21 · 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 (those, these, spirit), 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:21 # text = When those went, these went, and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 10 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 18 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 lifted lift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 21 up up ADV RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 lifted lift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 30 up up ADV RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 beside beside ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **go** | past | those | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | these | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stand** | past | those | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stand** | past | these | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lift up** | past · passive | | those | | the earth | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from earth=Destination | | 6 | **lift up** | past · passive | | the wheels | | | | beside creatures *= creature* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beside they=Destination | | 7 | **is** | past | the spirit of the living creature | | | the wheels | | | tree rules | 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} בְּלֶכְתָּ֣ם יֵלֵ֔כוּ וּבְעָמְדָ֖ם יַֽעֲמֹ֑דוּ וּֽבְהִנָּשְׂאָ֞ם מֵעַ֣ל הָאָ֗רֶץ יִנָּשְׂא֤וּ הָאֽוֹפַנִּים֙ לְעֻמָּתָ֔ם כִּ֛י ר֥וּחַ הַחַיָּ֖ה בָּאוֹפַנִּֽים׃ [Ezekiel 1:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:21` 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 1:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.20/) - next →: [Ezekiel 1:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.22/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 1:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.21/)