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title: Ezekiel 34:15 (JPS 1917) — I will feed My sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the L… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will feed My sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. Who acts: I, sheep, Lord GOD. Ezekiel 34:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 34:15 · JPS 1917

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I will feed My sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.

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**Who acts:** I, sheep, Lord GOD · **What happens:** feed, cause, lie down, say · **To what, where:** sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 34:15 · 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 (I, sheep, Lord GOD), 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:898
# text = I will feed My sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **feed** | future | I |  | My sheep |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Recipient |
| 2 | **cause** | future | I | sheep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie down** | to-infinitive | sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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אֲנִ֨י אֶרְעֶ֤ה צֹאנִי֙ וַאֲנִ֣י אַרְבִּיצֵ֔ם נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃

[Ezekiel 34:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.15/)

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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:898` 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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