Ezekiel 1:16 · JPS 1917

The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

Who acts: appearance, creatures · What happens: be, have, work · To what, where: one likeness, wheel

This is Ezekiel 1:16 · 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 (appearance, creatures), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 appearance	det
2	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 like	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wheels	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wheels	det
5	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 appearance	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 work	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 work	nmod:poss
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appearance	conj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 like	cop
10	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	unto	unto	ADP	_	13 colour	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 colour	det
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 like	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 beryl	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 beryl	det
16	beryl	beryl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 colour	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 they	appos
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 like	conj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 likeness	nummod
23	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 wheel	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 wheel	cc
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 appearance	nmod:poss
27	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wheel	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 work	cc
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 work	nmod:poss
30	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appearance	conj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 wheel	cop
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 wheel	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wheel	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 wheel	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 wheel	det
36	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 like	conj
37	within	within	ADP	_	39 wheel	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 wheel	det
39	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wheel	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the appearance of the wheels and creatures's work		unto the colour of a beryl; like property	tree rules
2	have	past	creatures = creature	one likeness		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent likeness=Patient
3	is a	past	creatures's appearance and creatures's work	a wheel	within a wheel	tree rules
4	work		creatures = creature			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent
5	work		creatures = creature			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

מַרְאֵ֨ה הָאוֹפַנִּ֤ים וּמַעֲשֵׂיהֶם֙ כְּעֵ֣ין תַּרְשִׁ֔ישׁ וּדְמ֥וּת אֶחָ֖ד לְאַרְבַּעְתָּ֑ן וּמַרְאֵיהֶם֙ וּמַ֣עֲשֵׂיהֶ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר יִהְיֶ֥ה הָאוֹפַ֖ן בְּת֥וֹךְ הָאוֹפָֽן׃

Ezekiel 1:16: 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:16 of Mova's parse database.

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