--- title: Ezekiel 21:24 (JPS 1917) — 'Now, thou son of man, make thee two ways, that the sword of the kin… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Now, thou son of man, make thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they twain shall come forth out of one land; and mark a signpost, mark it clear at the head of the way to the city. Who acts: you, sword, hands. 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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 (you, sword, hands), 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:525 # text = 'Now, thou son of man, make thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they twain shall come forth out of one land; and mark a signpost, mark it clear at the head of the way to the city. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 vocative _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 iobj _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 twain twain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 29 forth forth ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 out out ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 mark mark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 signpost signpost NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 mark mark VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 48 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | two ways | thee | | now | thou's son of man *vocative* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset thou=Beneficiary way=Product | | 2 | **come** | may | the sword of the king of Babylon | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | shall | hands *= hand* | | | one land | | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out land=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **mark** | infinitive | hands *= hand* *not said here* | a signpost | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent signpost=Destination | | 5 | **mark** | infinitive | hands *= hand* *not said here* | signpost | | the head of way to the city | | clear *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at head=Destination | 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} וְאַתָּ֨ה בֶן־אָדָ֜ם שִׂים־לְךָ֣ ׀ שְׁנַ֣יִם דְּרָכִ֗ים לָבוֹא֙ חֶ֣רֶב מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֔ל מֵאֶ֥רֶץ אֶחָ֖ד יֵצְא֣וּ שְׁנֵיהֶ֑ם וְיָ֣ד בָּרֵ֔א בְּרֹ֥אשׁ דֶּֽרֶךְ־עִ֖יר בָּרֵֽא׃ [Ezekiel 21:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.24/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:525` 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 21:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.524/) - next →: [Ezekiel 21:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.526/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 21:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.24/)