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title: Ezekiel 9:6 (JPS 1917) — slay utterly the old man, the young man and the maiden, and little c… · tree and pragmatics
description: slay utterly the old man, the young man and the maiden, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.' Then they began at the elders that were before the house. Who acts: you, women, elders. Ezekiel 9:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree
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# Ezekiel 9:6 · JPS 1917

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slay utterly the old man, the young man and the maiden, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.' Then they began at the elders that were before the house.

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**Who acts:** you, women, elders · **What happens:** slay, not come, be, begin · **To what, where:** old man, mark, sanctuary, elders

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This is Ezekiel 9:6 · 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 (you, women, elders), 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:172
# text = slay utterly the old man, the young man and the maiden, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.' Then they began at the elders that were before the house.
1	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
39	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
47	before	before	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	acl:relcl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | imperative | you *not said here* | the old man and the young man and the maiden and little children and women |  |  |  | utterly *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near any man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near man=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the mark |  |  |  | upon any man | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | My sanctuary |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **begin** | past | women *= woman* |  |  | the elders | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** | past | the elders |  |  |  | before the house |  | 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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זָקֵ֡ן בָּח֣וּר וּבְתוּלָה֩ וְטַ֨ף וְנָשִׁ֜ים תַּהַרְג֣וּ לְמַשְׁחִ֗ית וְעַל־כָּל־אִ֨ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־עָלָ֤יו הַתָּו֙ אַל־תִּגַּ֔שׁוּ וּמִמִּקְדָּשִׁ֖י תָּחֵ֑לּוּ וַיָּחֵ֙לּוּ֙ בָּאֲנָשִׁ֣ים הַזְּקֵנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר לִפְנֵ֥י הַבָּֽיִת׃

[Ezekiel 9:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.9.6/)

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