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title: Ezekiel 34:17 (JPS 1917) — And as for you, O My flock, thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as for you, O My flock, thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, even the rams and the he-goats. Who acts: Lord GOD, I. Ezekiel 34:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 34:17 · JPS 1917

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And as for you, O My flock, thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, even the rams and the he-goats.

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**Who acts:** Lord GOD, I · **What happens:** say, judge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 34:17 · 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), 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:900
# text = And as for you, O My flock, thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, even the rams and the he-goats.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	judge	judge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rams	ram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	he	he	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
32	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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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 |  |  |  |  | as you; My flock *vocative*; thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **judge** | present | I |  |  |  |  | between cattle and cattle and the rams and the he goats | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if 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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וְאַתֵּ֣נָה צֹאנִ֔י כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה הִנְנִ֤י שֹׁפֵט֙ בֵּֽין־שֶׂ֣ה לָשֶׂ֔ה לָאֵילִ֖ים וְלָעַתּוּדִֽים׃

[Ezekiel 34:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.17/)

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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:900` 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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