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title: Ezekiel 4:12 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.' Who acts: thou, dung, cakes. Ezekiel 4:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 4:12 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.'

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**Who acts:** thou, dung, cakes · **What happens:** eat, bake, come out, sight · **To what, where:** water, man

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This is Ezekiel 4:12 · 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, dung, cakes), 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:81
# text = And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **eat** | shall | thou | water |  |  |  | as barley cakes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **bake** | shall | thou | water |  |  |  | with dung; in cakes's sight | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient in sight=Instrument |
| 3 | **come out** | present | dung | man |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient man=Result |
| 4 | **sight** |  | cakes *= cake* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְעֻגַ֥ת שְׂעֹרִ֖ים תֹּֽאכֲלֶ֑נָּה וְהִ֗יא בְּגֶֽלְלֵי֙ צֵאַ֣ת הָֽאָדָ֔ם תְּעֻגֶ֖נָה לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃ס

[Ezekiel 4:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.12/)

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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:81` 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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