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title: Ezekiel 34:9 (JPS 1917) — therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: · tree and pragmatics
description: therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: Who acts: you. Ezekiel 34:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 34:9 · JPS 1917

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therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hear, word · **To what, where:** word, LORD

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This is Ezekiel 34:9 · 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 (you), 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:892
# text = therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
1	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	det	_	_
4	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	vocative	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | the word of the LORD |  |  |  | ye shepherds *vocative*; therefore *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **word** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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לָכֵן֙ הָֽרֹעִ֔ים שִׁמְע֖וּ דְּבַר־יְהוָֽה׃

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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:892` 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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