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title: Ezekiel 16:16 (JPS 1917) — And thou didst take of thy garments, and didst make for thee high pl… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou didst take of thy garments, and didst make for thee high places decked with divers colours, and didst play the harlot upon them; the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. Who acts: thou, like things, harlot. Ezekiel 16:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Ezekiel 16:16 · JPS 1917

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And thou didst take of thy garments, and didst make for thee high places decked with divers colours, and didst play the harlot upon them; the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

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**Who acts:** thou, like things, harlot · **What happens:** take, make, deck, play, not come, be · **To what, where:** high places, harlot

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This is Ezekiel 16:16 · 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 (thou, like things, harlot), 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:327
# text = And thou didst take of thy garments, and didst make for thee high places decked with divers colours, and didst play the harlot upon them; the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
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	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obl	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	divers	divers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	amod	_	_
19	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	harlot	harlot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	40	cc	_	_
37	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  | of thy garments | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of garment=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **make** | past · do-support | thou *not said here* | high places |  |  |  | for thee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent place=Product for thou=Asset |
| 3 | **deck** | participle |  | high places *not said here* |  |  |  | with divers colours | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with colour=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | past · do-support | thou *not said here* | the harlot |  |  |  | upon colours *= colour* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harlot=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **come** | shall | the like things |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | shall | harlot |  |  |  |  | so *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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וַתִּקְחִ֣י מִבְּגָדַ֗יִךְ וַתַּֽעֲשִׂי־לָךְ֙ בָּמ֣וֹת טְלֻא֔וֹת וַתִּזְנִ֖י עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם לֹ֥א בָא֖וֹת וְלֹ֥א יִהְיֶֽה׃

[Ezekiel 16:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.16/)

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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:327` 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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