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title: Ezekiel 37:21 (JPS 1917) — And say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezekiel 37:21 · JPS 1917

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And say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, whither they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land;

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**Who acts:** you, Lord GOD, I, children · **What happens:** say, take, go, gather, bring · **To what, where:** children, nations, side, own land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 37:21 · 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, children), 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:988
# text = And say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, whither they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto children *= child* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | future | I | the children of Israel |  | the nations |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent child=Theme from nation=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **go** | present · passive | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **gather** | future | I *not said here* | children *= child* |  | every side |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** | infinitive | I *not said here* | children *= child* |  | children's own land |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=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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וְדַבֵּ֣ר אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּֽה־אָמַר֮ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִה֒ הִנֵּ֨ה אֲנִ֤י לֹקֵ֙חַ֙ אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִבֵּ֥ין הַגּוֹיִ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָֽלְכוּ־שָׁ֑ם וְקִבַּצְתִּ֤י אֹתָם֙ מִסָּבִ֔יב וְהֵבֵאתִ֥י אוֹתָ֖ם אֶל־אַדְמָתָֽם׃

[Ezekiel 37:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.37.21/)

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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:988` 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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