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title: Ezekiel 31:2 (JPS 1917) — 'Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: w… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: whom art thou like in thy greatness? Who acts: you, thou. Ezekiel 31:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 31:2 · JPS 1917

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'Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: whom art thou like in thy greatness?

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** greatness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 31:2 · 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 (you, 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:798
# text = 'Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: whom art thou like in thy greatness?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Son	Son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
19	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Pharaoh king of Egypt and Egypt's multitude; Son of man *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | thou |  |  | thy greatness |  | like *property* | tree rules |

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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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בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם אֱמֹ֛ר אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֥ה מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֖יִם וְאֶל־הֲמוֹנ֑וֹ אֶל־מִ֖י דָּמִ֥יתָ בְגָדְלֶֽךָ׃

[Ezekiel 31:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.2/)

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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:798` 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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