--- title: Ezekiel 29:7 (JPS 1917) — When they take hold of thee with the hand, thou dost break, and rend… · tree and pragmatics description: When they take hold of thee with the hand, thou dost break, and rend all their shoulders; and when they lean upon thee, thou breakest, and makest all their loins to be at a stand. Who acts: inhabitants, thou, loins. 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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 (inhabitants, thou, loins), 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:756 # text = When they take hold of thee with the hand, thou dost break, and rend all their shoulders; and when they lean upon thee, thou breakest, and makest all their loins to be at a stand. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 obl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 12 dost do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 rend rend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 when when SCONJ WRB _ 24 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lean lean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 25 upon upon ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 28 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nsubj _ _ 29 breakest break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 makest make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det:predet _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 loins loin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 stand stand NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | hold | | | | of thee; with the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent hold=Theme of thou=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **break** | present · do-support | thou | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **rend** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | inhabitants's shoulders | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient | | 4 | **lean** | present | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | | | thee | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon thou=Location | | 5 | **break** | present | thou | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **make** | present | thou *not said here* | inhabitants's loins | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset loin=Product | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | inhabitants's loins *not said here* | | | a stand | | | tree rules | 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} בְּתָפְשָׂ֨ם בְּךָ֤ בַכַּף֙ תֵּר֔וֹץ וּבָקַעְתָּ֥ לָהֶ֖ם כָּל־כָּתֵ֑ף וּבְהִֽשָּׁעֲנָ֤ם עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ תִּשָּׁבֵ֔ר וְהַעֲמַדְתָּ֥ לָהֶ֖ם כָּל־מָתְנָֽיִם׃ס [Ezekiel 29:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.29.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:756` 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 29:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.755/) - next →: [Ezekiel 29:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.757/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 29:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.29.7/)