--- title: Ezekiel 47:9 (JPS 1917) — And it shall come to pass, that every living creature wherewith it s… · tree and pragmatics description: And it shall come to pass, that every living creature wherewith it swarmeth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come thither, that all things be healed and may live whithersoever the river cometh. 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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 (bank, rivers, living creature, river), 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:1262 # text = And it shall come to pass, that every living creature wherewith it swarmeth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come thither, that all things be healed and may live whithersoever the river cometh. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 10 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 12 wherewith wherewith ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 swarmeth swarm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 whithersoever whithersoever ADV WRB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 multitude multitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 36 for for SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 41 thither thither ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 45 det _ _ 45 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 be be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 healed heal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 advcl _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 conj _ _ 51 whithersoever whithersoever ADV WRB _ 54 mark _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 54 cometh come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 advcl _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | shall | bank | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | bank *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **swarm** | present | bank | | | | | wherewith *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | shall | the rivers | | | | | whithersoever *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **live** | shall | every living creature | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **come** | present · passive | | this waters | | | | thither *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **heal** | present · passive | | all things | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **live** | may | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **come** | present | the river | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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} וְהָיָ֣ה כָל־נֶ֣פֶשׁ חַיָּ֣ה ׀ אֲ‍ֽשֶׁר־יִשְׁרֹ֡ץ אֶ֣ל כָּל־אֲשֶׁר֩ יָב֨וֹא שָׁ֤ם נַחֲלַ֙יִם֙ יִֽחְיֶ֔ה וְהָיָ֥ה הַדָּגָ֖ה רַבָּ֣ה מְאֹ֑ד כִּי֩ בָ֨אוּ שָׁ֜מָּה הַמַּ֣יִם הָאֵ֗לֶּה וְיֵרָֽפְאוּ֙ וָחָ֔י כֹּ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־יָ֥בוֹא שָׁ֖מָּה הַנָּֽחַל׃ [Ezekiel 47:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:1262` 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 47:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1261/) - next →: [Ezekiel 47:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1263/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 47:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.9/)