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title: Ezekiel 21:9 (JPS 1917) — Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wick… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall My sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north; Who acts: sword, I. Ezekiel 21:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 21:9 · JPS 1917

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Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall My sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north;

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**Who acts:** sword, I · **What happens:** see, cut off, go · **To what, where:** righteous, thee, sheath · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 21:9 · 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 (sword, I), 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:509
# text = Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall My sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north;
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	righteous	righteous	NOUN	JJ	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wicked	wicked	NOUN	JJ	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sheath	sheath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=other, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | My sword *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cut off** | future | I | the righteous and the wicked |  | thee |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent righteous=Theme from thou=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | shall | My sword |  |  | sword's sheath |  | against all flesh from the south to the north; forth, therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out sheath=Initial\_Location |

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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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יַ֛עַן אֲשֶׁר־הִכְרַ֥תִּי מִמֵּ֖ךְ צַדִּ֣יק וְרָשָׁ֑ע לָ֠כֵן תֵּצֵ֨א חַרְבִּ֧י מִתַּעְרָ֛הּ אֶל־כָּל־בָּשָׂ֖ר מִנֶּ֥גֶב צָפֽוֹן׃

[Ezekiel 21:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.9/)

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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:509` 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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