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title: Ezekiel 34:18 (JPS 1917) — Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the settled waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? Who acts: ye. Ezekiel 34:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Ezekiel 34:18 · JPS 1917

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Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the settled waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** seem, feed, tread down, drink, settle, foul · **To what, where:** flock, residue

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This is Ezekiel 34:18 · 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 (ye), 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:901
# text = Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the settled waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
1	Seemeth	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	expl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	csubj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	residue	residue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nsubj	_	_
41	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	foul	foul	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	residue	residue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **seem** | present |  | flock |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feed** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | upon the good pasture | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tread down** | must | ye | the residue of your pasture |  |  |  | with your feet; down *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent residue=Patient with foot=Instrument |
| 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of the settled waters | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of water=Source |
| 5 | **settle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **foul** | must | ye | the residue |  |  |  | with your feet | 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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הַמְעַ֣ט מִכֶּ֗ם הַמִּרְעֶ֤ה הַטּוֹב֙ תִּרְע֔וּ וְיֶ֙תֶר֙ מִרְעֵיכֶ֔ם תִּרְמְס֖וּ בְּרַגְלֵיכֶ֑ם וּמִשְׁקַע־מַ֣יִם תִּשְׁתּ֔וּ וְאֵת֙ הַנּ֣וֹתָרִ֔ים בְּרַגְלֵיכֶ֖ם תִּרְפֹּשֽׂוּן׃

[Ezekiel 34:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.18/)

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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:901` 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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