--- title: Ezekiel 17:23 (JPS 1917) — in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shal… · tree and pragmatics description: in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a stately cedar; and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing, in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. Who acts: I, mountain, fowl, boughs. 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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 (I, mountain, fowl, boughs), 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:401 # text = in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a stately cedar; and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing, in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. 1 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 plant plant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 18 forth forth ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 boughs bough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 23 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 stately stately ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 cedar cedar NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 under under ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 dwell dwell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 36 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 fowl fowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 40 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ _ 48 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 49 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 50 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 dwell dwell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 parataxis _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=promise, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plant** | future | I | mountain | | the mountain of the height of Israel | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in mountain=Destination | | 2 | **bring** | shall | mountain | boughs | | | | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bough=Theme | | 3 | **bear** | infinitive | mountain *not said here* | fruit | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | infinitive | mountain *not said here* | a stately cedar | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **dwell** | shall | all fowl of every wing | | | mountain | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under it=Location | | 6 | **dwell** | shall | boughs *= bough* | | | the shadow of the branches | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=Location | | 7 | **shadow** | | | the branches | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient | 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} בְּהַ֨ר מְר֤וֹם יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶשְׁתֳּלֶ֔נּוּ וְנָשָׂ֤א עָנָף֙ וְעָ֣שָׂה פֶ֔רִי וְהָיָ֖ה לְאֶ֣רֶז אַדִּ֑יר וְשָׁכְנ֣וּ תַחְתָּ֗יו כֹּ֚ל צִפּ֣וֹר כָּל־כָּנָ֔ף בְּצֵ֥ל דָּלִיּוֹתָ֖יו תִּשְׁכֹּֽנָּה׃ [Ezekiel 17:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:401` 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 17:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.400/) - next →: [Ezekiel 17:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.402/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 17:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.23/)