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title: Ezekiel 24:17 (JPS 1917) — Sigh in silence; make no mourning for the dead, bind thy headtire up… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sigh in silence; make no mourning for the dead, bind thy headtire upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thine upper lip, and eat not the bread of men.' Who acts: you. Ezekiel 24:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 24:17 · JPS 1917

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Sigh in silence; make no mourning for the dead, bind thy headtire upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thine upper lip, and eat not the bread of men.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sigh, make, bind, put, not cover, not eat · **To what, where:** mourning, headtire, shoes, feet, upper lip, bread

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This is Ezekiel 24:17 · 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 (you), 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:638
# text = Sigh in silence; make no mourning for the dead, bind thy headtire upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thine upper lip, and eat not the bread of men.'
1	Sigh	sigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bind	bind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	headtire	headtire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
41	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in silence | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silence=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | no mourning |  |  |  | for the dead | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent mourning=Product for dead=Asset |
| 3 | **bind** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy headtire |  |  |  | upon thee | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headtire=Patient |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy shoes |  | thy feet |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme upon foot=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **cover** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thine upper lip |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lip=Destination |
| 6 | **not** **eat** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the bread of men |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |

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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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הֵאָנֵ֣ק ׀ דֹּ֗ם מֵתִים֙ אֵ֣בֶל לֹֽא־תַֽעֲשֶׂ֔ה פְאֵֽרְךָ֙ חֲב֣וֹשׁ עָלֶ֔יךָ וּנְעָלֶ֖יךָ תָּשִׂ֣ים בְּרַגְלֶ֑יךָ וְלֹ֤א תַעְטֶה֙ עַל־שָׂפָ֔ם וְלֶ֥חֶם אֲנָשִׁ֖ים לֹ֥א תֹאכֵֽל׃

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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:638` of Mova's parse database.

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