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title: Ezekiel 23:20 (JPS 1917) — And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the fles… · tree and pragmatics
description: And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. Who acts: Samaria, flesh, issue. Ezekiel 23:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 23:20 · JPS 1917

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And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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**Who acts:** Samaria, flesh, issue · **What happens:** dote, be, issue

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This is Ezekiel 23:20 · 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, flesh, issue), 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:591
# text = And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	doted	dote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	concubinage	concubinage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **dote** | past | Samaria |  |  |  |  | upon concubinage; with harlotries *= harlotry* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the flesh and the issue's flesh |  |  |  |  | as the flesh and the issue; of asses | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the issue's issue |  |  |  |  | like the issue; of horses | tree rules |
| 4 | **issue** |  | the issue |  |  |  |  |  | nom issue «cognition transitive»: 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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וַֽתַּעְגְּבָ֔ה עַ֖ל פִּֽלַגְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּשַׂר־חֲמוֹרִים֙ בְּשָׂרָ֔ם וְזִרְמַ֥ת סוּסִ֖ים זִרְמָתָֽם׃

[Ezekiel 23:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.20/)

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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:591` 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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