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title: Ezekiel 32:28 (JPS 1917) — But thou, in the midst of the uncircumcised shalt thou be broken and… · tree and pragmatics
description: But thou, in the midst of the uncircumcised shalt thou be broken and lie, even with them that are slain by the sword. Who acts: sword. Ezekiel 32:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 32:28 · JPS 1917

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But thou, in the midst of the uncircumcised shalt thou be broken and lie, even with them that are slain by the sword.

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**Who acts:** sword · **What happens:** break, lie, slay · **To what, where:** thou, midst

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This is Ezekiel 32:28 · 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 (sword), 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:844
# text = But thou, in the midst of the uncircumcised shalt thou be broken and lie, even with them that are slain by the sword.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	uncircumcised	uncircumcised	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	dep	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:agent	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **break** | shall · passive |  | thou |  | the midst of the uncircumcised |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with graves *= grave* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **slay** | present · passive | the sword |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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וְאַתָּ֗ה בְּת֧וֹךְ עֲרֵלִ֛ים תִּשָּׁבַ֥ר וְתִשְׁכַּ֖ב אֶת־חַלְלֵי־חָֽרֶב׃

[Ezekiel 32:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.28/)

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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:844` 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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