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title: Ezekiel 28:14 (JPS 1917) — Thou wast the far-covering cherub; and I set thee, so that thou wast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou wast the far-covering cherub; and I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire. Who acts: Thou, I. Ezekiel 28:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 28:14 · JPS 1917

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Thou wast the far-covering cherub; and I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire.

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**Who acts:** Thou, I · **What happens:** be, set, walk · **To what, where:** covering cherub, thee, midst

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This is Ezekiel 28:14 · 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, I), 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:737
# text = Thou wast the far-covering cherub; and I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
2	wast	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	covering	cover	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cherub	cherub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wast	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
26	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | past | Thou | the covering cherub |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | past | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient thou=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the holy mountain; of God | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | present · perfect | thou |  |  | the midst of stones of fire |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Trajectory |

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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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אַ֨תְּ־כְּר֔וּב מִמְשַׁ֖ח הַסּוֹכֵ֑ךְ וּנְתַתִּ֗יךָ בְּהַ֨ר קֹ֤דֶשׁ אֱלֹהִים֙ הָיִ֔יתָ בְּת֥וֹךְ אַבְנֵי־אֵ֖שׁ הִתְהַלָּֽכְתָּ׃

[Ezekiel 28:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.14/)

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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:737` 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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