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title: Ezekiel 14:17 (JPS 1917) — Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say: Let the sword go thro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say: Let the sword go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and beast; Who acts: I, sword. Ezekiel 14:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 14:17 · JPS 1917

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Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say: Let the sword go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and beast;

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**Who acts:** I, sword · **What happens:** bring, say, let, go, cut off · **To what, where:** sword, land, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 14:17 · 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 (I, sword), 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:296
# text = Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say: Let the sword go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and beast;
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | I | a sword |  |  |  | upon that land | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | the sword |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | the sword *not said here* |  |  | the land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through land=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **cut off** | present | I | man and beast |  | land |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme from it=Initial\_Location |

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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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א֛וֹ חֶ֥רֶב אָבִ֖יא עַל־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַהִ֑יא וְאָמַרְתִּ֗י חֶ֚רֶב תַּעֲבֹ֣ר בָּאָ֔רֶץ וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י מִמֶּ֖נָּה אָדָ֥ם וּבְהֵמָֽה׃

[Ezekiel 14:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.14.17/)

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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:296` 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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