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title: Ezekiel 8:6 (JPS 1917) — And He said unto me: 'Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezekiel 8:6 · JPS 1917

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And He said unto me: 'Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from My sanctuary? but thou shalt again see yet greater abominations.'

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**Who acts:** GOD, thou, eyes, house, I · **What happens:** say, see, do, commit, go · **To what, where:** great abominations, sanctuary, greater abominations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 8:6 · 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 (GOD, thou, eyes, house), 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:152
# text = And He said unto me: 'Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from My sanctuary? but thou shalt again see yet greater abominations.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	seest	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	abominations	abomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	commit	commit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
35	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
36	off	off	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	45	nsubj	_	_
43	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
46	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	48	amod	_	_
48	abominations	abomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
50	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | GOD |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | Son of man *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **commit** | present · do-support | the house of Israel | the great abominations |  | here |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | should | I |  |  | My sanctuary |  | off *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sanctuary=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **see** | shall | thou | greater abominations |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer abomination=Stimulus |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם הֲרֹאֶ֥ה אַתָּ֖ה מָ֣ה הֵ֣ם עֹשִׂ֑ים תּוֹעֵב֨וֹת גְּדֹל֜וֹת אֲשֶׁ֥ר בֵּֽית־יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל ׀ עֹשִׂ֣ים פֹּ֗ה לְרָֽחֳקָה֙ מֵעַ֣ל מִקְדָּשִׁ֔י וְעוֹד֙ תָּשׁ֣וּב תִּרְאֶ֔ה תּוֹעֵב֖וֹת גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃ס

[Ezekiel 8:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.6/)

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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:152` 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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