--- title: Ezekiel 36:38 (JPS 1917) — As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appoint… · tree and pragmatics description: As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed seasons, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am the LORD.' Who acts: cities, I. 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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 (cities, 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:967 # text = As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed seasons, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am the LORD.' 1 As as ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sacrifice sacrifice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 flocks flock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 ccomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appoint** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fill** | shall · passive | | the waste cities | | | | as the flock for sacrifice as the flock of Jerusalem in Jerusalem's appointed seasons; with flocks of men | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with flock=Instrument | | 3 | **know** | shall | cities *= city* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | I | the LORD | | | | | tree rules | 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} כְּצֹ֣אן קָֽדָשִׁ֗ים כְּצֹ֤אן יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ בְּמ֣וֹעֲדֶ֔יהָ כֵּ֤ן תִּהְיֶ֙ינָה֙ הֶעָרִ֣ים הֶחֳרֵב֔וֹת מְלֵא֖וֹת צֹ֣אן אָדָ֑ם וְיָדְע֖וּ כִּֽי־אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ס [Ezekiel 36:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.36.38/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:967` 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 36:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.966/) - next →: [Ezekiel 37:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.968/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 36:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.36.38/)