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title: Ezekiel 8:17 (JPS 1917) — Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abomi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here in that they fill the land with violence, and provoke Me still more, and, lo, they put the branch to their nose? Who acts: sun, things. Ezekiel 8:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Ezekiel 8:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here in that they fill the land with violence, and provoke Me still more, and, lo, they put the branch to their nose?

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**Who acts:** sun, things · **What happens:** be, commit, fill, provoke, put · **To what, where:** light thing, abominations, land, Me, branch

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This is Ezekiel 8:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (sun, things), 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:164
# text = Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here in that they fill the land with violence, and provoke Me still more, and, lo, they put the branch to their nose?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	commit	commit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	abominations	abomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	commit	commit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	provoke	provoke	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	40	discourse	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1, act=evaluate, polarity=neg, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | sun | a light thing |  |  |  | to the house of Judah | tree rules |
| 2 | **commit** | present | things *= thing* | the abominations |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abomination=Theme |
| 3 | **commit** | present | things *= thing* | the abominations |  | here |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **fill** | present | things *= thing* | the land |  |  |  | with violence | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent land=Patient with violence=Instrument |
| 5 | **provoke** | present | things *= thing* *not said here* | Me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 6 | **put** | present | things *= thing* | the branch |  |  |  | to things's nose | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent branch=Goal |

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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 אֵלַי֮ הֲרָאִ֣יתָ בֶן־אָדָם֒ הֲנָקֵל֙ לְבֵ֣ית יְהוּדָ֔ה מֵעֲשׂ֕וֹת אֶת־הַתּוֹעֵב֖וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָֽשׂוּ־פֹ֑ה כִּֽי־מָלְא֨וּ אֶת־הָאָ֜רֶץ חָמָ֗ס וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ לְהַכְעִיסֵ֔נִי וְהִנָּ֛ם שֹׁלְחִ֥ים אֶת־הַזְּמוֹרָ֖ה אֶל־אַפָּֽם׃

[Ezekiel 8:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Then He said unto me: 'Hast thou seen this, O son of man?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.163/)
2. **Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here in that they fill the land with violence, and provoke Me still more, and, lo, they put the branch to their nose?**

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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:164` 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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