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title: Ezekiel 12:6 (JPS 1917) — In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulder, and carry it fo… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezekiel 12:6 · JPS 1917

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In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulder, and carry it forth in the darkness; thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground; for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.'

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**Who acts:** thou, I, ears · **What happens:** bear, carry, cover, not see, set, sight · **To what, where:** sight, darkness, face, ground, thee

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This is Ezekiel 12:6 · 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 (thou, I, ears), 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:232
# text = In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulder, and carry it forth in the darkness; thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground; for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.'
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
23	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
37	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	obj	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | shall | thou | sight |  | ears's sight |  | upon thy shoulder | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | sight |  | the darkness |  | forth *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in darkness=Location |
| 3 | **cover** | shall | thou | thy face |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **see** | present | thou | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus |
| 5 | **set** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  |  | for a sign; unto the house of Israel | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thou=Patient for sign=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **sight** |  | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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לְעֵ֨ינֵיהֶ֜ם עַל־כָּתֵ֤ף תִּשָּׂא֙ בָּעֲלָטָ֣ה תוֹצִ֔יא פָּנֶ֣יךָ תְכַסֶּ֔ה וְלֹ֥א תִרְאֶ֖ה אֶת־הָאָ֑רֶץ כִּֽי־מוֹפֵ֥ת נְתַתִּ֖יךָ לְבֵ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Ezekiel 12:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.6/)

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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:232` of Mova's parse database.

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