--- title: Ezekiel 4:2 (JPS 1917) — and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a… · tree and pragmatics description: and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. Who acts: you. 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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 (you), 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:70 # text = and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 lay lay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 siege siege NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 against against ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 build build VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 forts fort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 against against ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 cast cast VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 mound mound NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 against against ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 set set VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 camps camp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 against against ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 set set VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 battering battering NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 rams ram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 against against ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 33 round round ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | imperative | you *not said here* | siege | | siege | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent siege=Theme against it=Destination | | 2 | **build** | infinitive | you *not said here* | forts | | | | against siege | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fort=Product | | 3 | **cast up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a mound | | siege | | | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mound=Theme against it=Destination | | 4 | **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* | camps | | siege | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent camp=Theme against it=Destination | | 5 | **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* | battering rams | | siege | | about *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ram=Theme against it=Destination | 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} וְנָתַתָּ֨ה עָלֶ֜יהָ מָצ֗וֹר וּבָנִ֤יתָ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ דָּיֵ֔ק וְשָׁפַכְתָּ֥ עָלֶ֖יהָ סֹֽלְלָ֑ה וְנָתַתָּ֨ה עָלֶ֧יהָ מַחֲנ֛וֹת וְשִׂים־עָלֶ֥יהָ כָּרִ֖ים סָבִֽיב׃ [Ezekiel 4:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:70` 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. - ← previous: [Ezekiel 4:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.69/) - next →: [Ezekiel 4:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.71/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 4:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.2/)