--- title: Ezekiel 38:14 (JPS 1917) — Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog: Thus saith the Lo… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog: Thus saith the Lord GOD: In that day when My people Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? Who acts: you, Lord GOD, people, thou. 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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 (you, Lord GOD, people, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:EZK:1009 # text = Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog: Thus saith the Lord GOD: In that day when My people Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 prophesy prophesy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 unto unto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Gog Gog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Thus thus ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 20 In in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 24 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 27 dwelleth dwell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 28 safely safely ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 30 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 31 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nsubj _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prophesy** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | son of man *vocative*; therefore *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | unto Gog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **dwell** | present | My people | | | | | safely *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **know** | shall | thou | spoil | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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 {#hebrew} לָכֵן֙ הִנָּבֵ֣א בֶן־אָדָ֔ם וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ לְג֔וֹג כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה הֲל֣וֹא ׀ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא בְּשֶׁ֨בֶת עַמִּ֧י יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל לָבֶ֖טַח תֵּדָֽע׃ [Ezekiel 38:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:1009` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Ezekiel 38:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1008/) - next →: [Ezekiel 38:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1010/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 38:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.14/)