Ezekiel 4:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And take thou unto thee an iron griddle, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it.
Who acts: thou · What happens: take, set, besiege, lay · To what, where: iron griddle, griddle, thee, face, city, siege
This is Ezekiel 4:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (thou), 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 | _ | 2 take | cc |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 take | nsubj |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 thee | case |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 take | obl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 griddle | det |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 griddle | compound |
| 8 | griddle | griddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 iron | case |
| 17 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wall | nmod |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 thee | case |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 set | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 city | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thee | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 26 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 face | nmod:poss |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obj |
| 28 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 besieged | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 besieged | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 besieged | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 besieged | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 besieged | aux:pass |
| 35 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 take | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 lay | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 lay | cc |
| 38 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 lay | nsubj |
| 39 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 40 lay | aux |
| 40 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 take | conj |
| 41 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lay | obj |
| 42 | against | against | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 lay | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
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- statement
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | thou | a iron griddle | unto thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent griddle=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | thou not said here | griddle | thee | for a wall of iron | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme between thou=Destination | ||
| 3 | set | infinitive | thou not said here | thy face | toward city | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient face=Result | |||
| 4 | besiege | shall · passive | city | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | lay | shall | thou | siege | siege | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent siege=Theme against it=Destination |
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
וְאַתָּ֤ה קַח־לְךָ֙ מַחֲבַ֣ת בַּרְזֶ֔ל וְנָתַתָּ֤ה אוֹתָהּ֙ קִ֣יר בַּרְזֶ֔ל בֵּינְךָ֖ וּבֵ֣ין הָעִ֑יר וַהֲכִינֹתָה֩ אֶת־פָּנֶ֨יךָ אֵלֶ֜יהָ וְהָיְתָ֤ה בַמָּצוֹר֙ וְצַרְתָּ֣ עָלֶ֔יהָ א֥וֹת הִ֖יא לְבֵ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס
Ezekiel 4:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And take thou unto thee an iron griddle, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it.
- This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EZK:71 of Mova's parse database.
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