--- title: Ezekiel 23:3 (JPS 1917) — and they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in… · tree and pragmatics description: and they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth; there were their bosoms pressed, and there their virgin breasts were bruised. Who acts: women, bosoms. 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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 (women, bosoms), 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:573 # text = and they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth; there were their bosoms pressed, and there their virgin breasts were bruised. 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 committed commit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 harlotries harlotry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 committed commit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 harlotries harlotry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 bosoms bosom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 19 pressed press VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 virgin virgin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 breasts breast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 bruised bruise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **commit** | past | women *= woman* | harlotries | | Egypt | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent harlotry=Theme in egypt=Destination | | 2 | **commit** | past | women *= woman* | harlotries | | women's youth | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent harlotry=Theme in youth=Destination | | 3 | **be** | past | women's bosoms | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **press** | participle | | women's bosoms *not said here* | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bruise** | past · passive | | women's virgin breasts | | there | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **bosom** | | women *= woman* | | | | | | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וַתִּזְנֶ֣ינָה בְמִצְרַ֔יִם בִּנְעוּרֵיהֶ֖ן זָנ֑וּ שָׁ֚מָּה מֹעֲכ֣וּ שְׁדֵיהֶ֔ן וְשָׁ֣ם עִשּׂ֔וּ דַּדֵּ֖י בְּתוּלֵיהֶֽן׃ [Ezekiel 23:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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