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title: Ezekiel 14:21 (JPS 1917) — For thus saith the Lord GOD: How much more when I send My four sore… · tree and pragmatics
description: For thus saith the Lord GOD: How much more when I send My four sore judgments against Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast. Who acts: Lord GOD, I, My. Ezekiel 14:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Ezekiel 14:21 · JPS 1917

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For thus saith the Lord GOD: How much more when I send My four sore judgments against Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast.

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**Who acts:** Lord GOD, I, My · **What happens:** say, send, cut off, judge · **To what, where:** four sore judgments, man, pestilence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 14:21 · 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 (Lord GOD, I, My), 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:300
# text = For thus saith the Lord GOD: How much more when I send My four sore judgments against Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast.
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	ccomp	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	judgments	judgment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
39	off	off	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
42	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** | present | I | My four sore judgments |  |  |  | against Jerusalem | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme |
| 3 | **cut off** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | man and beast |  | pestilence |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme from it=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **judge** |  | My |  |  |  |  | against Jerusalem | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent against=obl |

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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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כִּי֩ כֹ֨ה אָמַ֜ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֗ה אַ֣ף כִּֽי־אַרְבַּ֣עַת שְׁפָטַ֣י ׀ הָרָעִ֡ים חֶ֠רֶב וְרָעָ֞ב וְחַיָּ֤ה רָעָה֙ וָדֶ֔בֶר שִׁלַּ֖חְתִּי אֶל־יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם לְהַכְרִ֥ית מִמֶּ֖נָּה אָדָ֥ם וּבְהֵמָֽה׃

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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:300` 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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