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title: Ezekiel 39:18 (JPS 1917) — The flesh of the mighty shall ye eat, and the blood of the princes o… · tree and pragmatics
description: The flesh of the mighty shall ye eat, and the blood of the princes of the earth shall ye drink; rams, lambs, and goats, bullocks, fatlings of Bashan are they all of them. Who acts: ye, rams. Ezekiel 39:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 39:18 · JPS 1917

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The flesh of the mighty shall ye eat, and the blood of the princes of the earth shall ye drink; rams, lambs, and goats, bullocks, fatlings of Bashan are they all of them.

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**Who acts:** ye, rams · **What happens:** eat, drink, be · **To what, where:** flesh, blood, all

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This is Ezekiel 39:18 · 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 (ye, rams), 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:1037
# text = The flesh of the mighty shall ye eat, and the blood of the princes of the earth shall ye drink; rams, lambs, and goats, bullocks, fatlings of Bashan are they all of them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	rams	ram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	fatlings	fatling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Bashan	Bashan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	8	parataxis	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | shall | ye | the flesh of the mighty |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient |
| 2 | **drink** | shall | ye | the blood of the princes of the earth |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | rams and lambs and goats and bullocks and fatlings of Bashan | all |  |  |  | of fatlings *= fatling* | 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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בְּשַׂ֤ר גִּבּוֹרִים֙ תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ וְדַם־נְשִׂיאֵ֥י הָאָ֖רֶץ תִּשְׁתּ֑וּ אֵילִ֨ים כָּרִ֤ים וְעַתּוּדִים֙ פָּרִ֔ים מְרִיאֵ֥י בָשָׁ֖ן כֻּלָּֽם׃

[Ezekiel 39:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.39.18/)

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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:1037` 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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