--- title: Ezekiel 9:8 (JPS 1917) — And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I… · tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said: 'Ah Lord GOD! wilt Thou destroy all the residue of Israel in Thy pouring out of Thy fury upon Jerusalem?' Who acts: house, women, I, Thou. 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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 (house, women, I, Thou), 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:174 # text = And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said: 'Ah Lord GOD! wilt Thou destroy all the residue of Israel in Thy pouring out of Thy fury upon Jerusalem?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 while while SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 smiting smite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 31 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 33 discourse _ _ 32 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 vocative _ _ 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 35 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nsubj _ _ 37 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 38 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 40 det:predet _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 residue residue NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 pouring pouring NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 46 out out ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 fury fury NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 50 upon upon ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 52 ? ? PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 53 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: other - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=other, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | house | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | house *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **smite** | past · progressive | women *= woman* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **leave** | past · passive | | I | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | past | I | | | my face | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=Location | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **destroy** | future | Thou | all residue of Israel | | Thy pouring | | Lord GOD *vocative* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent residue=Patient | | 9 | **infuriate** | | Thy | | | | | upon Jerusalem | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=agent upon=obl | 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} וַֽיְהִי֙ כְּהַכּוֹתָ֔ם וְנֵֽאשֲׁאַ֖ר אָ֑נִי וָאֶפְּלָ֨ה עַל־פָּנַ֜י וָאֶזְעַ֗ק וָֽאֹמַר֙ אֲהָהּ֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הֲמַשְׁחִ֣ית אַתָּ֗ה אֵ֚ת כָּל־שְׁאֵרִ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּשָׁפְכְּךָ֥ אֶת־חֲמָתְךָ֖ עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ [Ezekiel 9:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.9.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:174` 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 9:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.173/) - next →: [Ezekiel 9:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.175/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 9:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.9.8/)