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title: Ezekiel 23:8 (JPS 1917) — Neither hath she left her harlotries brought from Egypt; for in her… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither hath she left her harlotries brought from Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised her virgin breasts; and they poured out their lust upon her. Who acts: Samaria, harlotries. Ezekiel 23:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 23:8 · JPS 1917

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Neither hath she left her harlotries brought from Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised her virgin breasts; and they poured out their lust upon her.

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**Who acts:** Samaria, harlotries · **What happens:** leave, bring, lie, bruise, pour out, lust · **To what, where:** harlotries, Egypt, youth, virgin breasts, lust

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This is Ezekiel 23:8 · 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 (Samaria, harlotries), 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:579
# text = Neither hath she left her harlotries brought from Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised her virgin breasts; and they poured out their lust upon her.
1	Neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
2	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	harlotries	harlotry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bruised	bruise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|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	22	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	lust	lust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **leave** | present · perfect | Samaria | Samaria's harlotries |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harlotry=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | participle |  | Samaria's harlotries *not said here* |  | Egypt |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from egypt=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past | harlotries *= harlotry* |  |  | Samaria's youth |  | with Samaria | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in youth=Location |
| 4 | **bruise** | past | harlotries *= harlotry* | Samaria's virgin breasts |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Patient |
| 5 | **pour out** | past | harlotries *= harlotry* | harlotries's lust |  |  |  | upon Samaria | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lust=Patient |
| 6 | **lust** |  | harlotries *= harlotry* |  |  |  |  |  | nom lust «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְאֶת־תַּזְנוּתֶ֤יהָ מִמִּצְרַ֙יִם֙ לֹ֣א עָזָ֔בָה כִּ֤י אוֹתָהּ֙ שָׁכְב֣וּ בִנְעוּרֶ֔יהָ וְהֵ֥מָּה עִשּׂ֖וּ דַּדֵּ֣י בְתוּלֶ֑יהָ וַיִּשְׁפְּכ֥וּ תַזְנוּתָ֖ם עָלֶֽיהָ׃

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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:579` of Mova's parse database.

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