--- title: Ezekiel 38:21 (JPS 1917) — And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains,… · tree and pragmatics description: And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD; every man's sword shall be against his brother. Who acts: I, Lord GOD, sword. Ezekiel 38:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1016/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Ezekiel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/) / [chapter 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/38/) / [38:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.21/) / JPS 1 # Ezekiel 38:21 · JPS 1917 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD; every man's sword shall be against his brother. **Who acts:** I, Lord GOD, sword · **What happens:** call, say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Ezekiel 38:21 · 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 (I, Lord GOD, sword), 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:1016 # text = And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD; every man's sword shall be against his brother. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 against against ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 10 throughout throughout ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 13 det:predet _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 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 : _ 28 punct _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 26 against against ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | future | I | | | | throughout my mountains | for a sword; against man | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for sword=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | shall | every man's sword | | | | | against man's brother | 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 {#hebrew} וְקָרָ֨אתִי עָלָ֤יו לְכָל־הָרַי֙ חֶ֔רֶב נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה חֶ֥רֶב אִ֖ישׁ בְּאָחִ֥יו תִּֽהְיֶֽה׃ [Ezekiel 38:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:1016` 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 38:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1015/) - next →: [Ezekiel 38:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1017/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 38:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.21/)