Ezekiel 4:16 · JPS 1917

Moreover He said unto me: 'Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and in appalment;

Who acts: flesh, I, beasts · What happens: say, break, eat, drink · To what, where: staff, Jerusalem, bread, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ezekiel 4:16 · 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 (flesh, I, beasts), 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	Moreover	moreover	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 break	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 break	punct
8	Son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 break	vocative
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 man	case
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Son	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 behold	punct
12	behold	behold	INTJ	_	16 break	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 behold	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 break	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 break	aux
16	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 staff	det
18	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 break	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 bread	case
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 staff	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Jerusalem	case
22	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 break	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eat	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 eat	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	aux
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 break	conj
28	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obj
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 weight	case
30	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 anxiety	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 anxiety	cc
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 anxiety	case
34	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 weight	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 drink	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 drink	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 drink	nsubj
38	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 drink	aux
39	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drink	obj
41	by	by	ADP	_	42 measure	case
42	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drink	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 appalment	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 appalment	cc
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 appalment	case
46	appalment	appalment	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 measure	conj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	flesh			unto me; moreover property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	future	I	the staff of bread	Jerusalem	Son of man vocative	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer staff=Patient
3	eat	shall	beasts = beast	bread		by weight and anxiety	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
4	drink	shall	beasts = beast	water		by measure and appalment	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י בֶּן־אָדָם֙ הִנְנִ֨י שֹׁבֵ֤ר מַטֵּה־לֶ֙חֶם֙ בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וְאָכְלוּ־לֶ֥חֶם בְּמִשְׁקָ֖ל וּבִדְאָגָ֑ה וּמַ֕יִם בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥ה וּבְשִׁמָּמ֖וֹן יִשְׁתּֽוּ׃

Ezekiel 4:16: 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:85 of Mova's parse database.

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