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title: Ezekiel 23:4 (JPS 1917) — And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister; and they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Who acts: names, women. Ezekiel 23:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 23:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister; and they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters.

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**Who acts:** names, women · **What happens:** be, become, bear, name · **To what, where:** Oholah, sons, women

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This is Ezekiel 23:4 · 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 (names, women), 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:574
# text = And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister; and they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Oholah	Oholah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Oholibah	Oholibah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	Mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **is a** | past | the names of women | Oholah and Oholibah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bear** | past | women *= woman* | sons and daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וּשְׁמוֹתָ֗ן אָהֳלָ֤ה הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ וְאָהֳלִיבָ֣ה אֲחוֹתָ֔הּ וַתִּֽהְיֶ֣ינָה לִ֔י וַתֵּלַ֖דְנָה בָּנִ֣ים וּבָנ֑וֹת וּשְׁמוֹתָ֕ן שֹׁמְר֣וֹן אָהֳלָ֔ה וִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם אָהֳלִיבָֽה׃

[Ezekiel 23:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister; and they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters.**
2. [And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.575/)

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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:574` 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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