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title: Ezekiel 1:28 (JPS 1917) — As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. Who acts: bow. Ezekiel 1:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 1:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about.

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**Who acts:** bow · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** cloud, appearance

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This is Ezekiel 1:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (bow), 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:28
# text = As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	round	round	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the bow |  |  | the cloud | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the appearance |  |  |  | as the appearance of the bow; of the brightness | tree rules |

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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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כְּמַרְאֵ֣ה הַקֶּ֡שֶׁת אֲשֶׁר֩ יִֽהְיֶ֨ה בֶעָנָ֜ן בְּי֣וֹם הַגֶּ֗שֶׁם כֵּ֣ן מַרְאֵ֤ה הַנֹּ֙גַהּ֙ סָבִ֔יב ה֕וּא מַרְאֵ֖ה דְּמ֣וּת כְּבוֹד־יְהוָ֑ה וָֽאֶרְאֶה֙ וָאֶפֹּ֣ל עַל־פָּנַ֔י וָאֶשְׁמַ֖ע ק֥וֹל מְדַבֵּֽר׃ס

[Ezekiel 1:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.28/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about.**
2. [This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.29/)
3. [And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.30/)

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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:28` 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.

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