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title: Ezekiel 26:4 (JPS 1917) — And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers;… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. Who acts: waves, I. Ezekiel 26:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 26:4 · JPS 1917

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And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

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**Who acts:** waves, I · **What happens:** destroy, break down, scrape, make · **To what, where:** walls, towers, dust, bare rock, Tyre

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This is Ezekiel 26:4 · 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 (waves, 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:669
# text = And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Tyre	Tyre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | shall | waves *= wave* | the walls of Tyre |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient |
| 2 | **break down** | infinitive | waves *= wave* *not said here* | Tyre's towers |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient |
| 3 | **scrape** | future | I | Tyre's dust |  |  |  | from Tyre | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dust=Patient from she=Source |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a bare rock | Tyre |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |

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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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וְשִׁחֲת֞וּ חֹמ֣וֹת צֹ֗ר וְהָֽרְסוּ֙ מִגְדָּלֶ֔יהָ וְסִֽחֵיתִ֥י עֲפָרָ֖הּ מִמֶּ֑נָּה וְנָתַתִּ֥י אוֹתָ֖הּ לִצְחִ֥יחַ סָֽלַע׃

[Ezekiel 26:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.4/)

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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:669` 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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