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title: Ezekiel 34:10 (JPS 1917) — Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require My sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver My sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them. Who acts: Lo
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# Ezekiel 34:10 · JPS 1917

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Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require My sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver My sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

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**Who acts:** Lord GOD, I, sheep, shepherds · **What happens:** say, be, require, cause, cease, feed · **To what, where:** sheep, hand, shepherds, mouth, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 34:10 · 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 (Lord GOD, I, sheep, shepherds), 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:893
# text = Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require My sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver My sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	ccomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	39	cc	_	_
36	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	any	any	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
48	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
56	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
57	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
58	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	cop	_	_
59	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	advcl	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nmod	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | 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 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | against the shepherds | tree rules |
| 3 | **require** | future | I | My sheep |  | shepherds's hand |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sheep=Precondition |
| 4 | **cause** | infinitive | I *not said here* | sheep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cease** | to-infinitive | sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **feed** | gerund | sheep *not said here* |  | the sheep |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Recipient |
| 7 | **feed** | shall | the shepherds | shepherds *= shepherd* |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient |
| 8 | **deliver** | future | I | My sheep |  | shepherds's mouth |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme from mouth=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **not** **is a** | may | shepherds *= shepherd* | food |  |  |  | for sheep | tree rules |

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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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כֹּה־אָמַ֞ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה הִנְנִ֨י אֶֽל־הָרֹעִ֜ים וְֽדָרַשְׁתִּ֧י אֶת־צֹאנִ֣י מִיָּדָ֗ם וְהִשְׁבַּתִּים֙ מֵרְע֣וֹת צֹ֔אן וְלֹא־יִרְע֥וּ ע֛וֹד הָרֹעִ֖ים אוֹתָ֑ם וְהִצַּלְתִּ֤י צֹאנִי֙ מִפִּיהֶ֔ם וְלֹֽא־תִהְיֶ֥יןָ לָהֶ֖ם לְאָכְלָֽה׃ס

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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:893` of Mova's parse database.

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