Ezekiel 1:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
Who acts: this, creatures · What happens: be, have · To what, where: appearance, likeness
This is Ezekiel 1:5 · 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 (this, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 appearance | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appearance | cop |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appearance | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 likeness | det |
| 10 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 likeness | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appearance | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | creatures's appearance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | creatures = creature | the likeness of a man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent likeness=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
וּמִ֨תּוֹכָ֔הּ דְּמ֖וּת אַרְבַּ֣ע חַיּ֑וֹת וְזֶה֙ מַרְאֵֽיהֶ֔ן דְּמ֥וּת אָדָ֖ם לָהֵֽנָּה׃
Ezekiel 1:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.
- And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EZK:5 of Mova's parse database.
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