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title: Ezekiel 12:3 (JPS 1917) — Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for exile, and remove… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for exile, and remove as though for exile by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight; it may be they will perceive, for they are a rebellious house. Who acts: you, thou, stuff, ears. Ezekiel 12:3 in JPS 1
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# Ezekiel 12:3 · JPS 1917

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Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for exile, and remove as though for exile by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight; it may be they will perceive, for they are a rebellious house.

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**Who acts:** you, thou, stuff, ears · **What happens:** prepare, remove, be, sight · **To what, where:** stuff, thee, sight, place, rebellious house

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This is Ezekiel 12:3 · 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, thou, stuff, ears), 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:229
# text = Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for exile, and remove as though for exile by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight; it may be they will perceive, for they are a rebellious house.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	iobj	_	_
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
28	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
41	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	cop	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
49	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	advcl	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | imperative | you *not said here* | stuff | thee |  |  | for exile; thou's son of man *vocative*; therefore *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary stuff=Product |
| 2 | **remove** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | ears's sight | day | for exile | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remove** | shall | thou |  |  | thy place |  | to another place; in ears's sight | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from place=Source |
| 4 | **is** | may · future | stuff |  |  |  |  | perceive *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | ears *= ear* | a rebellious house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sight** |  | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **sight** |  | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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וְאַתָּ֣ה בֶן־אָדָ֗ם עֲשֵׂ֤ה לְךָ֙ כְּלֵ֣י גוֹלָ֔ה וּגְלֵ֥ה יוֹמָ֖ם לְעֵֽינֵיהֶ֑ם וְגָלִ֨יתָ מִמְּקוֹמְךָ֜ אֶל־מָק֤וֹם אַחֵר֙ לְעֵ֣ינֵיהֶ֔ם אוּלַ֣י יִרְא֔וּ כִּ֛י בֵּ֥ית מְרִ֖י הֵֽמָּה׃

[Ezekiel 12:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.3/)

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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:229` of Mova's parse database.

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