Ezekiel 8:11 · JPS 1917

And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

Who acts: seventy men, Jaazaniah, thick cloud · What happens: stand, go up, cloud · To what, where: midst, incense

This is Ezekiel 8:11 · 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 (seventy men, Jaazaniah, thick cloud), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 stood	cc
2	there	there	PRON	_	3 stood	expl
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	obl
6	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 men	nummod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 elders	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 elders	det
10	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 men	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 elders	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Israel	case
15	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stood	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 midst	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 midst	det
20	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 midst	nmod
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
24	Jaazaniah	Jaazaniah	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 stood	nsubj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 son	det
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Jaazaniah	appos
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Shaphan	case
28	Shaphan	Shaphan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 son	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Jaazaniah	appos
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 censer	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 censer	nmod:poss
34	censer	censer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 man	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 hand	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hand	nmod:poss
37	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 censer	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 went	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 went	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 cloud	det
41	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 cloud	amod
42	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	nsubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 incense	case
44	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cloud	nmod
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 went	compound:prt
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel		there	before idols = idol	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location
2	stand	past	Jaazaniah		the midst of idols		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location
3	go up	past	a thick cloud of incense				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	cloud			incense			nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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

וְשִׁבְעִ֣ים אִ֣ישׁ מִזִּקְנֵ֣י בֵֽית־יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל וְיַאֲזַנְיָ֨הוּ בֶן־שָׁפָ֜ן עֹמֵ֤ד בְּתוֹכָם֙ עֹמְדִ֣ים לִפְנֵיהֶ֔ם וְאִ֥ישׁ מִקְטַרְתּ֖וֹ בְּיָד֑וֹ וַעֲתַ֥ר עֲנַֽן־הַקְּטֹ֖רֶת עֹלֶֽה׃

Ezekiel 8:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EZK:157 of Mova's parse database.

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