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title: Ezekiel 20:15 (JPS 1917) — Yet also I lifted up My hand unto them in the wilderness, that I wou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet also I lifted up My hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the beauty of all lands; Who acts: I, land. Ezekiel 20:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 20:15 · JPS 1917

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Yet also I lifted up My hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the beauty of all lands;

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**Who acts:** I, land · **What happens:** lift up, not bring, give, flow, be · **To what, where:** hand, wilderness, elders, land, beauty

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This is Ezekiel 20:15 · 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 (I, land), 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:469
# text = Yet also I lifted up My hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the beauty of all lands;
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	acl:relcl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | past | I | My hand |  | the wilderness |  | unto elders *= elder* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in wilderness=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **bring** | would | I | elders *= elder* |  | the land |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into land=Destination |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect | I | the land | elders *= elder* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient which=Theme |
| 4 | **flow** | gerund | the land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with milk and honey | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with milk=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the land | the beauty |  |  |  | of all lands | tree rules |

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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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וְגַם־אֲנִ֗י נָשָׂ֧אתִי יָדִ֛י לָהֶ֖ם בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר לְבִלְתִּי֩ הָבִ֨יא אוֹתָ֜ם אֶל־הָאָ֣רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־נָתַ֗תִּי זָבַ֤ת חָלָב֙ וּדְבַ֔שׁ צְבִ֥י הִ֖יא לְכָל־הָאֲרָצֽוֹת׃

[Ezekiel 20:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.15/)

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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:469` of Mova's parse database.

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