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title: Ezekiel 11:4 (JPS 1917) — Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.' · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.' Who acts: you. Ezekiel 11:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 11:4 · JPS 1917

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Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** prophesy

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This is Ezekiel 11:4 · 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), 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:203
# text = Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.'
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	prophesy	prophesy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	prophesy	prophesy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prophesy** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against caldron; son of man *vocative*; therefore *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prophesy** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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לָכֵ֖ן הִנָּבֵ֣א עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם הִנָּבֵ֖א בֶּן־אָדָֽם׃

[Ezekiel 11:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.11.4/)

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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:203` 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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