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title: Ezekiel 4:1 (JPS 1917) — Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and trace upon it a city, even Jerusalem; Who acts: Thou. Ezekiel 4:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 4:1 · JPS 1917

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Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and trace upon it a city, even Jerusalem;

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** take, lay, trace · **To what, where:** tile, thee, city

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This is Ezekiel 4:1 · 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 (Thou), 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:69
# text = Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and trace upon it a city, even Jerusalem;
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	iobj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tile	tile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	trace	trace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive | Thou | a tile | thee |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument thou=Theme tile=Destination |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | tile |  | thee |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before thou=Destination |
| 3 | **trace** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | a city |  |  |  | upon tile | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |

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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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וְאַתָּ֤ה בֶן־אָדָם֙ קַח־לְךָ֣ לְבֵנָ֔ה וְנָתַתָּ֥ה אוֹתָ֖הּ לְפָנֶ֑יךָ וְחַקּוֹתָ֥ עָלֶ֛יהָ עִ֖יר אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[Ezekiel 4:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.1/)

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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:69` 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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