--- title: Ezekiel 21:15 (JPS 1917) — It is sharpened that it may make a sore slaughter, it is furbished t… · tree and pragmatics description: It is sharpened that it may make a sore slaughter, it is furbished that it may glitter — or shall we make mirth? — against the rod of My son, contemning every tree. Who acts: sword, we. 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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 (sword, we), 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:515 # text = It is sharpened that it may make a sore slaughter, it is furbished that it may glitter — or shall we make mirth? — against the rod of My son, contemning every tree. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 sharpened sharpen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 slaughter slaughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 furbished furbish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 glitter glitter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 19 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 24 mirth mirth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 26 — - PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 against against ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 contemning contemn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 35 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sharpen** | present · passive | | sword | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **make** | may | sword | a sore slaughter | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material slaughter=Product | | 3 | **furbish** | present · passive | | sword | | | | against the rod of My son | tree rules | | 4 | **glitter** | may | sword | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | shall | we | mirth | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirth=Product | | 6 | **contemn** | gerund | we *not said here* | every tree | | | | | tree rules | 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} לְמַ֨עַן טְבֹ֤חַ טֶ֙בַח֙ הוּחַ֔דָּה לְמַעַן־הֱיֵה־לָ֥הּ בָּ֖רָק מֹרָ֑טָּה א֣וֹ נָשִׂ֔ישׂ שֵׁ֥בֶט בְּנִ֖י מֹאֶ֥סֶת כָּל־עֵֽץ׃ [Ezekiel 21:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:515` 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 21:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.514/) - next →: [Ezekiel 21:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.516/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 21:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.15/)