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title: Ezekiel 17:15 (JPS 1917) — But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Who acts: mighty, ambassadors. Ezekiel 17:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 17:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people.

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**Who acts:** mighty, ambassadors · **What happens:** rebel, send, give · **To what, where:** ambassadors, Egypt, horses, mighty

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This is Ezekiel 17:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (mighty, ambassadors), 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:392
# text = But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rebelled	rebel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rebel** | past | mighty |  |  |  |  | against king | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against he=Maleficiary |
| 2 | **send** | gerund | mighty *not said here* | mighty's ambassadors |  | Egypt |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | might | ambassadors *= ambassador* | horses and much people | mighty |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme |

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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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וַיִּמְרָד־בּ֗וֹ לִשְׁלֹ֤חַ מַלְאָכָיו֙ מִצְרַ֔יִם לָֽתֶת־ל֥וֹ סוּסִ֖ים וְעַם־רָ֑ב הֲיִצְלָ֤ח הֲיִמָּלֵט֙ הָעֹשֵׂ֣ה אֵ֔לֶּה וְהֵפֵ֥ר בְּרִ֖ית וְנִמְלָֽט׃

[Ezekiel 17:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.15/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people.**
2. [Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.393/)

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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:392` 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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