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title: Ezekiel 5:1 (JPS 1917) — And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword, as a barber's razor s… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezekiel 5:1 · JPS 1917

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And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword, as a barber's razor shalt thou take it unto thee, and cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard; then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

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**Who acts:** thou, razor · **What happens:** take, cause, pass, weigh, divide · **To what, where:** sharp sword, thee, razor, head, balances, hair

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This is Ezekiel 5:1 · 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, razor), 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:87
# text = And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword, as a barber's razor shalt thou take it unto thee, and cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard; then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	iobj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	razor	razor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
19	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
39	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
40	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
41	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	iobj	_	_
42	balances	balance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	weigh	weigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	divide	divide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive | thou | a sharp sword | thee |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument thou=Theme sword=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | shall | thou | a barber's razor |  |  |  | unto thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument razor=Theme it=Destination |
| 3 | **cause** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | razor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | razor *not said here* |  |  | thy head |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon head=Location |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive |  | balances | thee |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument thou=Theme balance=Destination |
| 6 | **weigh** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **divide** | infinitive |  | the hair |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |

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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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וְאַתָּ֨ה בֶן־אָדָ֜ם קַח־לְךָ֣ ׀ חֶ֣רֶב חַדָּ֗ה תַּ֤עַר הַגַּלָּבִים֙ תִּקָּחֶ֣נָּה לָּ֔ךְ וְהַעֲבַרְתָּ֥ עַל־רֹאשְׁךָ֖ וְעַל־זְקָנֶ֑ךָ וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ לְךָ֛ מֹאזְנֵ֥י מִשְׁקָ֖ל וְחִלַּקְתָּֽם׃

[Ezekiel 5:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.5.1/)

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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:87` of Mova's parse database.

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