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title: Ezekiel 17:14 (JPS 1917) — that his might be a lowly kingdom, that it might not lift itself up,… · tree and pragmatics
description: that his might be a lowly kingdom, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. Who acts: mighty, kingdom, covenant. Ezekiel 17:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 17:14 · JPS 1917

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that his might be a lowly kingdom, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

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**Who acts:** mighty, kingdom, covenant · **What happens:** be, not lift up, keep, stand, covenant · **To what, where:** lowly kingdom, kingdom, covenant

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This is Ezekiel 17:14 · 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 (mighty, kingdom, covenant), 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:391
# text = that his might be a lowly kingdom, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lowly	lowly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | might | mighty | a lowly kingdom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **lift up** | might | kingdom | kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund | covenant *not said here* | mighty's covenant |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covenant=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | might | covenant |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **covenant** |  | mighty |  |  |  |  |  | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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לִֽהְיוֹת֙ מַמְלָכָ֣ה שְׁפָלָ֔ה לְבִלְתִּ֖י הִתְנַשֵּׂ֑א לִשְׁמֹ֥ר אֶת־בְּרִית֖וֹ לְעָמְדָֽהּ׃

[Ezekiel 17:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.14/)

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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:391` 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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