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title: Ezekiel 48:14 (JPS 1917) — And they shall not sell of it, nor exchange, nor alienate the first… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they shall not sell of it, nor exchange, nor alienate the first portion of the land; for it is holy unto the LORD. Who acts: Levites, portion. Ezekiel 48:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 48:14 · JPS 1917

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And they shall not sell of it, nor exchange, nor alienate the first portion of the land; for it is holy unto the LORD.

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**Who acts:** Levites, portion · **What happens:** not sell, exchange, alienate, be · **To what, where:** first portion

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This is Ezekiel 48:14 · 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 (Levites, portion), 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:1294
# text = And they shall not sell of it, nor exchange, nor alienate the first portion of the land; for it is holy unto the LORD.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
10	exchange	exchange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
13	alienate	alienate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sell** | shall | Levites *= levite* |  |  |  |  | of border | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **exchange** | infinitive | Levites *= levite* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **alienate** | infinitive | Levites *= levite* *not said here* | the first portion of the land |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus portion=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | portion |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD; holy *property* | 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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וְלֹא־יִמְכְּר֣וּ מִמֶּ֗נּוּ וְלֹ֥א יָמֵ֛ר וְלֹ֥א יַעֲבִ֖יר רֵאשִׁ֣ית הָאָ֑רֶץ כִּי־קֹ֖דֶשׁ לַיהוָֽה׃

[Ezekiel 48:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.48.14/)

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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:1294` 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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