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title: Ezekiel 15:3 (JPS 1917) — Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? Who acts: men. Ezekiel 15:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 15:3 · JPS 1917

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Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** take, make, hang · **To what, where:** wood, work, pin, vessel

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This is Ezekiel 15:3 · 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 (men), 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:305
# text = Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **take** | shall · passive |  | wood |  |  |  | thereof *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | any work |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset work=Product |
| 3 | **take** | future | men | a pin of wood |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Theme |
| 4 | **hang** | to-infinitive | men *not said here* | any vessel |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient |

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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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הֲיֻקַּ֤ח מִמֶּ֙נּוּ֙ עֵ֔ץ לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת לִמְלָאכָ֑ה אִם־יִקְח֤וּ מִמֶּ֙נּוּ֙ יָתֵ֔ד לִתְל֥וֹת עָלָ֖יו כָּל־כֶּֽלִי׃

[Ezekiel 15:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.15.3/)

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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:305` 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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