--- title: Ezekiel 28:13 (JPS 1917) — thou wast in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy co… · tree and pragmatics description: thou wast in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the carnelian, the topaz, and the emerald, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the smaragd, and gold; the workmanship of thy settings and of thy sockets was in thee, in the day that thou was --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.736/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Ezekiel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/) / [chapter 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/28/) / [28:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.13/) / JPS 1 # Ezekiel 28:13 · JPS 1917 thou wast in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the carnelian, the topaz, and the emerald, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the smaragd, and gold; the workmanship of thy settings and of thy sockets was in thee, in the day that thou wast created they were prepared. **Who acts:** thou, precious stone, workmanship, day · **What happens:** be, create, prepare · **To what, where:** garden, Eden, covering, thee, thou, sockets This is Ezekiel 28:13 · 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, precious stone, workmanship, day), 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:736 # text = thou wast in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the carnelian, the topaz, and the emerald, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the smaragd, and gold; the workmanship of thy settings and of thy sockets was in thee, in the day that thou wast created they were prepared. 1 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nsubj _ _ 2 wast be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Eden Eden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 11 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 covering covering NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 carnelian carnelian NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 topaz topaz NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 emerald emerald NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 beryl beryl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 onyx onyx NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 jasper jasper NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sapphire sapphire NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 carbuncle carbuncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 smaragd smaragd NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 49 ; ; PUNCT : _ 61 punct _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 workmanship workmanship NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nsubj _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 54 nmod:poss _ _ 54 settings setting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nmod _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 sockets socket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 conj _ _ 59 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 cop _ _ 60 in in ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 parataxis _ _ 62 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 63 in in ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 66 that that SCONJ IN _ 69 mark _ _ 67 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 69 nsubj:pass _ _ 68 wast be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 69 aux:pass _ _ 69 created create VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 65 acl:relcl _ _ 70 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 72 nsubj:pass _ _ 71 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 72 aux:pass _ _ 72 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 73 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | thou | the garden | | Eden | | of God | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | every precious stone | thy covering and the carnelian and the topaz and the emerald and the beryl and the onyx and the jasper and the sapphire and the carbuncle and the smaragd and gold | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | the workmanship of thy settings and thy sockets | | | thee | day | | tree rules | | 4 | **create** | past · passive | the day *not said here* | thou | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 5 | **prepare** | past · passive | | sockets *= socket* | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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} בְּעֵ֨דֶן גַּן־אֱלֹהִ֜ים הָיִ֗יתָ כָּל־אֶ֨בֶן יְקָרָ֤ה מְסֻכָתֶ֙ךָ֙ אֹ֣דֶם פִּטְדָ֞ה וְיָהֲלֹ֗ם תַּרְשִׁ֥ישׁ שֹׁ֙הַם֙ וְיָ֣שְׁפֵ֔ה סַפִּ֣יר נֹ֔פֶךְ וּבָרְקַ֖ת וְזָהָ֑ב מְלֶ֨אכֶת תֻּפֶּ֤יךָ וּנְקָבֶ֙יךָ֙ בָּ֔ךְ בְּי֥וֹם הִבָּרַאֲךָ֖ כּוֹנָֽנוּ׃ [Ezekiel 28:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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