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title: Ezekiel 31:9 (JPS 1917) — I made it fair by the multitude of its branches; so that all the tre… · tree and pragmatics
description: I made it fair by the multitude of its branches; so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it. Who acts: I, trees. Ezekiel 31:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 31:9 · JPS 1917

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I made it fair by the multitude of its branches; so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

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**Who acts:** I, trees · **What happens:** make, be, envy · **To what, where:** field, garden

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This is Ezekiel 31:9 · 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 (I, trees), 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:805
# text = I made it fair by the multitude of its branches; so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Eden	Eden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
28	envied	envy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | I | field |  |  |  | by the multitude of field's branches; fair *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | all trees of Eden |  |  | the garden |  | of God | tree rules |
| 3 | **envy** | past | all trees of Eden | field |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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יָפֶ֣ה עֲשִׂיתִ֔יו בְּרֹ֖ב דָּֽלִיּוֹתָ֑יו וַיְקַנְאֻ֙הוּ֙ כָּל־עֲצֵי־עֵ֔דֶן אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּגַ֥ן הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ס

[Ezekiel 31:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.9/)

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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:805` 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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