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title: Ezekiel 22:27 (JPS 1917) — Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey: to shed blood, and to destroy souls, so as to get dishonest gain. Who acts: princes, wolves. Ezekiel 22:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 22:27 · JPS 1917

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Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey: to shed blood, and to destroy souls, so as to get dishonest gain.

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**Who acts:** princes, wolves · **What happens:** be, ravin, shed, destroy, get · **To what, where:** wolves, prey, blood, souls, dishonest gain

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This is Ezekiel 22:27 · 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 (princes, wolves), 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:566
# text = Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey: to shed blood, and to destroy souls, so as to get dishonest gain.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	ravening	ravin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	shed	shed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
16	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
27	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | conspiracy's princes  the midst |  |  | wolves |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ravin** | gerund | wolves *not said here* | the prey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shed** | to-infinitive | conspiracy's princes  the midst *not said here* | blood |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source |
| 4 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | conspiracy's princes  the midst *not said here* | souls |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | conspiracy's princes  the midst *not said here* | dishonest gain |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gain=Stimulus |

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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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שָׂרֶ֣יהָ בְקִרְבָּ֔הּ כִּזְאֵבִ֖ים טֹ֣רְפֵי טָ֑רֶף לִשְׁפָּךְ־דָּם֙ לְאַבֵּ֣ד נְפָשׁ֔וֹת לְמַ֖עַן בְּצֹ֥עַ בָּֽצַע׃

[Ezekiel 22:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.27/)

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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:566` 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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