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title: Ezekiel 5:16 (JPS 1917) — when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for… · tree and pragmatics
description: when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you; and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread; Who acts: I. Ezekiel 5:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 5:16 · JPS 1917

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when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you; and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread;

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** send, be, destroy, increase, break · **To what, where:** evil arrows, you, famine, staff

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This is Ezekiel 5:16 · 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 (I), 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:103
# text = when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you; and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread;
1	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | shall | I | the evil arrows of famine |  |  |  | upon nations *= nation* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for destruction | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | future | I | the evil arrows of famine |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 5 | **increase** | future | I | the famine |  |  |  | upon you | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer famine=Patient |
| 6 | **break** | future | I *not said here* | your staff of bread |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer staff=Patient |

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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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בְּֽשַׁלְּחִ֡י אֶת־חִצֵּי֩ הָרָעָ֨ב הָרָעִ֤ים בָּהֶם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָי֣וּ לְמַשְׁחִ֔ית אֲשֶׁר־אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח אוֹתָ֖ם לְשַֽׁחֶתְכֶ֑ם וְרָעָב֙ אֹסֵ֣ף עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם וְשָׁבַרְתִּ֥י לָכֶ֖ם מַטֵּה־לָֽחֶם׃

[Ezekiel 5:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.5.16/)

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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:103` 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.

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