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title: Ezekiel 16:32 (JPS 1917) — Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband — Who acts: wife. Ezekiel 16:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 16:32 · JPS 1917

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Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband —

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** commit, take · **To what, where:** adultery, strangers

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This is Ezekiel 16:32 · 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 (wife), 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:344
# text = Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband —
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	0	root	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	committest	commit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	adultery	adultery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	takest	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=frag, polarity=neg, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commit** | present | wife | adultery |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adultery=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present | wife | strangers |  |  |  | instead thy husband | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme |

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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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הָאִשָּׁ֖ה הַמְּנָאָ֑פֶת תַּ֣חַת אִישָׁ֔הּ תִּקַּ֖ח אֶת־זָרִֽים׃

[Ezekiel 16:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.32/)

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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:344` 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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