--- title: Ezekiel 26:19 (JPS 1917) — For thus saith the Lord GOD: When I shall make thee a desolate city,… · tree and pragmatics description: For thus saith the Lord GOD: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee; Who acts: Lord GOD, I, great waters. 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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 (Lord GOD, I, great waters), 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:684 # text = For thus saith the Lord GOD: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee; 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 thus thus ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 When when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 12 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 obj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 desolate desolate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 inhabited inhabit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 deep deep NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 41 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 obj _ _ 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | shall | I | thee | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Product | | 3 | **not** **inhabit** | present · passive | | the cities | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bring up** | shall | I | the deep | | | | upon thee | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent deep=Patient | | 5 | **cover** | shall | the great waters | thee | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=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} כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה בְּתִתִּ֤י אֹתָךְ֙ עִ֣יר נֶחֱרֶ֔בֶת כֶּעָרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־נוֹשָׁ֑בוּ בְּהַעֲל֤וֹת עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ אֶת־תְּה֔וֹם וְכִסּ֖וּךְ הַמַּ֥יִם הָרַבִּֽים׃ [Ezekiel 26:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:684` 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 26:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.683/) - next →: [Ezekiel 26:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.685/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 26:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.19/)