--- title: Ezekiel 17:3 (JPS 1917) — and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and… · tree and pragmatics description: and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar; Who acts: you, Lord GOD, great eagle. 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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 (you, Lord GOD, great eagle), 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:378 # text = and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar; 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Thus thus ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 pinions pinion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 26 divers diver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 30 unto unto ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Lebanon Lebanon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cedar cedar NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | past | a great eagle with great wings and long pinions | divers colours | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 4 | **come** | past | a great eagle with great wings and long pinions | | | | | unto Lebanon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **take** | past | a great eagle with great wings and long pinions *not said here* | the top of the cedar | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Theme | 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} וְאָמַרְתָּ֞ כֹּה־אָמַ֣ר ׀ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה הַנֶּ֤שֶׁר הַגָּדוֹל֙ גְּד֤וֹל הַכְּנָפַ֙יִם֙ אֶ֣רֶךְ הָאֵ֔בֶר מָלֵא֙ הַנּוֹצָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־ל֖וֹ הָֽרִקְמָ֑ה בָּ֚א אֶל־הַלְּבָנ֔וֹן וַיִּקַּ֖ח אֶת־צַמֶּ֥רֶת הָאָֽרֶז׃ [Ezekiel 17:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:378` 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 17:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.377/) - next →: [Ezekiel 17:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.379/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 17:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.3/)