--- title: Ezekiel 1:28 (JPS 1917) — And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one t… · tree and pragmatics description: And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke. Who acts: I. Ezekiel 1:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.30/) [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/) / [1:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.28/) / JPS 3 # Ezekiel 1:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** see, fall, hear, speak · **To what, where:** appearance, face, voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Ezekiel 1:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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 (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:30 # text = And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 one one PRON NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | I | appearance | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **fall** | past | I | | | my face | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=Location | | 3 | **hear** | past | I | a voice of one | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.28/) 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.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:30` 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 1:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.29/) - next →: [Ezekiel 2:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.31/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 1:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.28/)