--- title: Ezekiel 36:12 (JPS 1917) — Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel, and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel, and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance; and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of children. Who acts: I, men, places, thou. 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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, men, places, thou), 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:941 # text = Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel, and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance; and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of children. 1 Yea yea INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 15 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 possess possess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 21 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 25 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 inheritance inheritance NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nsubj _ _ 32 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 33 no no ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 35 henceforth henceforth ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 bereave bereave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | future | I | men | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive | men *not said here* | | | | | upon you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=Trajectory | | 3 | **possess** | shall | places *= place* | thee | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thou=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | shall | thou | places's inheritance | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bereave** | shall | thou | places *= place* | | | | of children; henceforth *property* | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Source of child=Theme | 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} וְהוֹלַכְתִּי֩ עֲלֵיכֶ֨ם אָדָ֜ם אֶת־עַמִּ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וִֽירֵשׁ֔וּךָ וְהָיִ֥יתָ לָהֶ֖ם לְנַחֲלָ֑ה וְלֹא־תוֹסִ֥ף ע֖וֹד לְשַׁכְּלָֽם׃ס [Ezekiel 36:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.36.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:941` 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. - ← previous: [Ezekiel 36:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.940/) - next →: [Ezekiel 36:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.942/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 36:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.36.12/)