Ezekiel 16:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Were thy harlotries a small matter,
Who acts: harlotries · What happens: be · To what, where: small matter
This is Ezekiel 16:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (harlotries), 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | cop |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 harlotries | nmod:poss |
| 3 | harlotries | harlotry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 matter | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 matter | amod |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | thy harlotries | a small matter | tree rules |
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
וַתִּקְחִ֞י אֶת־בָּנַ֤יִךְ וְאֶת־בְּנוֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָלַ֣דְתְּ לִ֔י וַתִּזְבָּחִ֥ים לָהֶ֖ם לֶאֱכ֑וֹל הַמְעַ֖ט מִתַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃
Ezekiel 16:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto Me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured.
- Were thy harlotries a small matter,
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EZK:332 of Mova's parse database.
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