--- title: Ezekiel 44:15 (JPS 1917) — But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge… · tree and pragmatics description: But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near to Me to minister unto Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer unto Me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD; Who acts: priests, children --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1187/) [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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/44/) / [44:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.15/) / JPS 1 # Ezekiel 44:15 · JPS 1917 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near to Me to minister unto Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer unto Me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD; **Who acts:** priests, children, Lord GOD · **What happens:** keep, go, come, minister, stand, offer · **To what, where:** charge, Me, fat, sanctuary · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Ezekiel 44:15 · 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 (priests, children, Lord GOD), 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:1187 # text = But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near to Me to minister unto Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer unto Me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD; 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Levites levite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 appos _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Zadok Zadok PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 sanctuary sanctuary NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 when when SCONJ WRB _ 24 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 25 astray astray ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 32 near near ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 minister minister VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 37 unto unto ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 44 before before ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ _ 48 unto unto ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 obl _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 conj _ _ 55 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 58 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 60 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | the priests | the charge of My sanctuary | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | the children of Israel | | | | | from Me; astray *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from i=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **come** | shall | the priests | | Me | | | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **minister** | to-infinitive | the priests *not said here* | | | | | unto Me | tree rules | | 5 | **stand** | shall | children *= child* | | | | before Me | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=Location | | 6 | **offer** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | the fat and the blood | | | | unto Me | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **charge** | | | My sanctuary | | | | | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים הַלְוִיִּ֜ם בְּנֵ֣י צָד֗וֹק אֲשֶׁ֨ר שָׁמְר֜וּ אֶת־מִשְׁמֶ֤רֶת מִקְדָּשִׁי֙ בִּתְע֤וֹת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מֵֽעָלַ֔י הֵ֛מָּה יִקְרְב֥וּ אֵלַ֖י לְשָֽׁרְתֵ֑נִי וְעָמְד֣וּ לְפָנַ֗י לְהַקְרִ֥יב לִי֙ חֵ֣לֶב וָדָ֔ם נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ [Ezekiel 44:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:1187` 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 44:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1186/) - next →: [Ezekiel 44:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1188/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 44:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.15/)