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title: Ezekiel 13:18 (JPS 1917) — Will ye hunt the souls of My people, and save souls alive for yourse… · tree and pragmatics
description: Will ye hunt the souls of My people, and save souls alive for yourselves? Who acts: ye. Ezekiel 13:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 13:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Will ye hunt the souls of My people, and save souls alive for yourselves?

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** hunt, save · **To what, where:** souls

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This is Ezekiel 13:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (ye), 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:274
# text = Will ye hunt the souls of My people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=other, indirect=0, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | future | ye | the souls of My people |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | souls |  |  |  | for yourselves; alive *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent soul=Theme for yourselves=Source |

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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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וְאָמַרְתָּ֞ כֹּה־אָמַ֣ר ׀ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה הוֹי֩ לִֽמְתַפְּר֨וֹת כְּסָת֜וֹת עַ֣ל ׀ כָּל־אַצִּילֵ֣י יָדַ֗י וְעֹשׂ֧וֹת הַמִּסְפָּח֛וֹת עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ כָּל־קוֹמָ֖ה לְצוֹדֵ֣ד נְפָשׁ֑וֹת הַנְּפָשׁוֹת֙ תְּצוֹדֵ֣דְנָה לְעַמִּ֔י וּנְפָשׁ֖וֹת לָכֶ֥נָה תְחַיֶּֽינָה׃

[Ezekiel 13:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the women that sew cushions upon all elbows, and make pads for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.273/)
2. **Will ye hunt the souls of My people, and save souls alive for yourselves?**

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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:274` 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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