--- title: Ezekiel 5:17 (JPS 1917) — and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bere… · tree and pragmatics description: and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. Who acts: I, beasts, pestilence. 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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 (I, beasts, pestilence), 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:104 # text = and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. 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 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 bereave bereave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 16 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 pestilence pestilence NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 24 through through ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 upon upon ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | future | I | famine and evil beasts | | | | upon you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent famine=Theme | | 2 | **bereave** | shall | beasts *= beast* | thee | | | | | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Source | | 3 | **pass** | shall | pestilence and blood | | | thee | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through thou=Location | | 4 | **bring** | future | I | the sword | | | | upon thee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | 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} וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֣י עֲ֠לֵיכֶם רָעָ֞ב וְחַיָּ֤ה רָעָה֙ וְשִׁכְּלֻ֔ךְ וְדֶ֥בֶר וָדָ֖ם יַעֲבָר־בָּ֑ךְ וְחֶ֙רֶב֙ אָבִ֣יא עָלַ֔יִךְ אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃פ [Ezekiel 5:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.5.17/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee.** 2. [I the LORD have spoken it.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.105/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:104` 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 5:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.103/) - next →: [Ezekiel 5:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.105/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 5:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.5.17/)