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title: Ezekiel 12:18 (JPS 1917) — 'Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with tr… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety; Who acts: you. Ezekiel 12:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 12:18 · JPS 1917

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'Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** eat, drink · **To what, where:** bread, water

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This is Ezekiel 12:18 · 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), 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:244
# text = 'Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	quaking	quake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy bread |  |  |  | with quaking; Son of man *vocative* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 2 | **drink** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy water |  |  |  | with trembling | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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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בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם לַחְמְךָ֖ בְּרַ֣עַשׁ תֹּאכֵ֑ל וּמֵימֶ֕יךָ בְּרָגְזָ֥ה וּבִדְאָגָ֖ה תִּשְׁתֶּֽה׃

[Ezekiel 12:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.18/)

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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:244` 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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