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# Ezekiel 1:4 · JPS 1917

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And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire flashing up, so that a brightness was round about it; and out of the midst thereof as the colour of electrum, out of the midst of the fire.

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**Who acts:** I, stormy wind, fire, brightness · **What happens:** look, come out, flash up, be · **To what, where:** north, midst

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This is Ezekiel 1:4 · 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 (I, stormy wind, fire, brightness), 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:3
# text = And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire flashing up, so that a brightness was round about it; and out of the midst thereof as the colour of electrum, out of the midst of the fire.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
25	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
34	about	about	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
42	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	electrum	electrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	out	out	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come out** | past | a stormy wind | the north |  |  |  | with a fire | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient north=Result |
| 3 | **flash up** | gerund | a fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | a brightness |  |  | the midst as the colour of electrum out the midst of the fire |  | about wind; round *property* | 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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וָאֵ֡רֶא וְהִנֵּה֩ ר֨וּחַ סְעָרָ֜ה בָּאָ֣ה מִן־הַצָּפ֗וֹן עָנָ֤ן גָּדוֹל֙ וְאֵ֣שׁ מִתְלַקַּ֔חַת וְנֹ֥גַֽהּ ל֖וֹ סָבִ֑יב וּמִ֨תּוֹכָ֔הּ כְּעֵ֥ין הַחַשְׁמַ֖ל מִתּ֥וֹךְ הָאֵֽשׁ׃

[Ezekiel 1:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.4/)

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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:3` of Mova's parse database.

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