--- title: Ezekiel 31:4 (JPS 1917) — The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow; her rivers ran ro… · tree and pragmatics description: The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow; her rivers ran round about her plantation, and she sent out her conduits unto all the trees of the field. Who acts: waters, deep, top, rivers. 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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 (waters, deep, top, rivers), 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:800 # text = The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow; her rivers ran round about her plantation, and she sent out her conduits unto all the trees of the field. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 nourished nourish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 deep deep NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 round round ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 plantation plantation NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 conduits conduit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 unto unto ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nourish** | past | the waters | top | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **make** | past | the deep | top | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | top *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **run** | past | deep's rivers | | | | | about deep's plantation | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about plantation=Trajectory | | 5 | **send out** | past | deep | deep's conduits | | | | unto all trees of the field | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduit=Theme | 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} מַ֣יִם גִּדְּל֔וּהוּ תְּה֖וֹם רֹֽמְמָ֑תְהוּ אֶת־נַהֲרֹתֶ֗יהָ הֹלֵךְ֙ סְבִיב֣וֹת מַטָּעָ֔הּ וְאֶת־תְּעָלֹתֶ֣יהָ שִׁלְחָ֔ה אֶ֖ל כָּל־עֲצֵ֥י הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃ [Ezekiel 31:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:800` 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 31:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.799/) - next →: [Ezekiel 31:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.801/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 31:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.4/)