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title: Ezekiel 1:5 (JPS 1917) — And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatu… · tree and pragmatics
description: And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. Who acts: likeness. Ezekiel 1:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.

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**Who acts:** likeness · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** midst

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This is Ezekiel 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (likeness), 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:4
# text = And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the likeness of four living creatures |  |  | the midst |  | thereof *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out midst=Initial\_Location |

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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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וּמִ֨תּוֹכָ֔הּ דְּמ֖וּת אַרְבַּ֣ע חַיּ֑וֹת וְזֶה֙ מַרְאֵֽיהֶ֔ן דְּמ֥וּת אָדָ֖ם לָהֵֽנָּה׃

[Ezekiel 1:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.**
2. [And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.5/)

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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:4` 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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