--- title: Ezekiel 30:4 (JPS 1917) — And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and convulsion shall be in Ethiop… · tree and pragmatics description: And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and convulsion shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her abundance, and her foundation shall be broken down. Who acts: sword, convulsion, slain, nations. 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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 (sword, convulsion, slain, nations), 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:774 # text = And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and convulsion shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her abundance, and her foundation shall be broken down. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 convulsion convulsion NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Ethiopia Ethiopia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 slain slain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 28 away away ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 abundance abundance NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 foundation foundation NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 38 down down ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | shall | a sword | | | Egypt | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon egypt=Location | | 2 | **is** | shall | convulsion | | | Ethiopia | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | shall | the slain | | | Egypt | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in egypt=Location | | 4 | **take away** | shall | nations *= nation* | slain's abundance | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abundance=Theme | | 5 | **break down** | shall · passive | | slain's foundation | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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} וּבָאָ֥ה חֶ֙רֶב֙ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם וְהָיְתָ֤ה חַלְחָלָה֙ בְּכ֔וּשׁ בִּנְפֹ֥ל חָלָ֖ל בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם וְלָקְח֣וּ הֲמוֹנָ֔הּ וְנֶהֶרְס֖וּ יְסוֹדֹתֶֽיהָ׃ [Ezekiel 30:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:774` 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 30:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.773/) - next →: [Ezekiel 30:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.775/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 30:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.4/)