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title: Ezekiel 34:28 (JPS 1917) — And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the b… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beast of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid. Who acts: weak, beast, none. Ezekiel 34:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 34:28 · JPS 1917

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And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beast of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.

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**Who acts:** weak, beast, none · **What happens:** be, devour, dwell, make · **To what, where:** prey, weak

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This is Ezekiel 34:28 · 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 (weak, beast, none), 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:911
# text = And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beast of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	_	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc:preconj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	32	nsubj	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | shall | weak | a prey |  |  |  | to the nations | tree rules |
| 2 | **devour** | shall | the beast of the earth | weak |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **dwell** | shall | weak |  |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | shall | none | weak |  |  |  | afraid *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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וְלֹא־יִהְי֨וּ ע֥וֹד בַּז֙ לַגּוֹיִ֔ם וְחַיַּ֥ת הָאָ֖רֶץ לֹ֣א תֹאכְלֵ֑ם וְיָשְׁב֥וּ לָבֶ֖טַח וְאֵ֥ין מַחֲרִֽיד׃

[Ezekiel 34:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.28/)

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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:911` 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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