--- title: Ezekiel 16:7 (JPS 1917) — And thou didst increase and grow up, and thou camest to excellent be… · tree and pragmatics description: And thou didst increase and grow up, and thou camest to excellent beauty: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair was grown; yet thou wast naked and bare. Who acts: thou, hair. 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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, hair), 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:318 # text = And thou didst increase and grow up, and thou camest to excellent beauty: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair was grown; yet thou wast naked and bare. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 3 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 increase increase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 11 camest come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 breasts breast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 fashioned fashion VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj _ _ 29 wast be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 naked naked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **increase** | past · do-support | thou | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **grow up** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | thou | | | excellent beauty | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to beauty=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **fashion** | past · passive | | thy breasts | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **grow** | past · passive | thy hair | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | thou | | | | | naked *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | thou *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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} רְבָבָ֗ה כְּצֶ֤מַח הַשָּׂדֶה֙ נְתַתִּ֔יךְ וַתִּרְבִּי֙ וַֽתִּגְדְּלִ֔י וַתָּבֹ֖אִי בַּעֲדִ֣י עֲדָיִ֑ים שָׁדַ֤יִם נָכֹ֙נוּ֙ וּשְׂעָרֵ֣ךְ צִמֵּ֔חַ וְאַ֖תְּ עֵרֹ֥ם וְעֶרְיָֽה׃ [Ezekiel 16:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.7/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [I cause thee to increase, even as the growth of the field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.317/) 2. **And thou didst increase and grow up, and thou camest to excellent beauty: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair was grown; yet thou wast naked and bare.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:318` 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 16:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.317/) - next →: [Ezekiel 16:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.319/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 16:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.7/)