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title: Ezekiel 38:22 (JPS 1917) — And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I w… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezekiel 38:22 · JPS 1917

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And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will cause to rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

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**Who acts:** I, many peoples · **What happens:** plead, cause, rain, be · **To what, where:** overflowing shower

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This is Ezekiel 38:22 · 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, many peoples), 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:1017
# text = And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will cause to rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
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	plead	plead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rain	rain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	overflowing	overflowing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	brimstone	brimstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plead** *speech: request* | future | I |  |  |  |  | against man; with pestilence and blood | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rain** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a overflowing shower and great hailstones and fire and brimstone |  |  |  | upon man | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the many peoples |  |  |  |  | with man | tree rules |

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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}

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וְנִשְׁפַּטְתִּ֥י אִתּ֖וֹ בְּדֶ֣בֶר וּבְדָ֑ם וְגֶ֣שֶׁם שׁוֹטֵף֩ וְאַבְנֵ֨י אֶלְגָּבִ֜ישׁ אֵ֣שׁ וְגָפְרִ֗ית אַמְטִ֤יר עָלָיו֙ וְעַל־אֲגַפָּ֔יו וְעַל־עַמִּ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אִתּֽוֹ׃

[Ezekiel 38:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.22/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:1017` of Mova's parse database.

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