--- title: Ezekiel 47:23 (JPS 1917) — And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojournet… · tree and pragmatics description: And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD. Who acts: land, stranger, ye, Lord GOD. 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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 (land, stranger, ye, 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:1280 # text = And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD. 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 , _ 19 punct _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 11 det _ _ 11 tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 sojourneth sojourn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 19 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 inheritance inheritance NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 saith say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ _ 27 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **come** | shall | land | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | land *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sojourn** | present | the stranger | | | what tribe | | | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tribe=Location | | 4 | **give** | shall | ye | Israel's inheritance | Israel | there | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient inheritance=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Lord GOD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **inherit** | | Israel | | | | | | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 בַשֵּׁ֔בֶט אֲשֶׁר־גָּ֥ר הַגֵּ֖ר אִתּ֑וֹ שָׁ֚ם תִּתְּנ֣וּ נַחֲלָת֔וֹ נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ס [Ezekiel 47:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:1280` 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 47:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1279/) - next →: [Ezekiel 48:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1281/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 47:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.23/)