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title: Ezekiel 37:12 (JPS 1917) — Therefore prophesy, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Beho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore prophesy, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. Who acts: you, Lord GOD, I. Ezekiel 37:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Ezekiel 37:12 · JPS 1917

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Therefore prophesy, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

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**Who acts:** you, Lord GOD, I · **What happens:** prophesy, say, open, cause, come up, bring · **To what, where:** graves, you, people, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 37:12 · 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 (you, 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:979
# text = Therefore prophesy, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	prophesy	prophesy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	up	up	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
35	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **prophesy** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto bones *= bone* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **open** | future | I | your graves |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grave=Theme |
| 5 | **cause** | infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come up** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | My people |  | your graves |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out grave=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **bring** | future | I | you |  | the land of Israel |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into land=Destination |

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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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לָכֵן֩ הִנָּבֵ֨א וְאָמַרְתָּ֜ אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּֽה־אָמַר֮ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִה֒ הִנֵּה֩ אֲנִ֨י פֹתֵ֜חַ אֶת־קִבְרֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם וְהַעֲלֵיתִ֥י אֶתְכֶ֛ם מִקִּבְרוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם עַמִּ֑י וְהֵבֵאתִ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם אֶל־אַדְמַ֥ת יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

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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:979` of Mova's parse database.

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