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title: Ezekiel 8:15 (JPS 1917) — Then said He unto me: 'Hast thou seen this, O son of man? thou shalt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said He unto me: 'Hast thou seen this, O son of man? thou shalt again see yet greater abominations than these.' Who acts: LORD, thou. Ezekiel 8:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 8:15 · JPS 1917

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Then said He unto me: 'Hast thou seen this, O son of man? thou shalt again see yet greater abominations than these.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, thou · **What happens:** say, see · **To what, where:** this, greater abominations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 8:15 · 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 (LORD, 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:161
# text = Then said He unto me: 'Hast thou seen this, O son of man? thou shalt again see yet greater abominations than these.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
19	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
22	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	abominations	abomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | LORD |  |  |  | then | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect | thou | this |  |  |  | son of man *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | shall | thou | greater abominations |  |  | again | than these | 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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלַ֖י הֲרָאִ֣יתָ בֶן־אָדָ֑ם ע֣וֹד תָּשׁ֥וּב תִּרְאֶ֛ה תּוֹעֵב֥וֹת גְּדֹל֖וֹת מֵאֵֽלֶּה׃

[Ezekiel 8:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.15/)

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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:161` 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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