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title: Ezekiel 12:22 (JPS 1917) — 'Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying: The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? Who acts: proverb, ye, vision. Ezekiel 12:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 12:22 · JPS 1917

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'Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying: The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

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**Who acts:** proverb, ye, vision · **What happens:** be, have, say, prolong, fail · **To what, where:** proverb, land, days · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 12:22 · 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 (proverb, ye, vision), 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:249
# text = 'Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying: The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	faileth	fail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that proverb |  |  |  |  | Son of man *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | ye | that proverb |  | the land of Israel |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **prolong** | present · passive |  | the days |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **fail** | present | every vision |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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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בֶּן־אָדָ֗ם מָֽה־הַמָּשָׁ֤ל הַזֶּה֙ לָכֶ֔ם עַל־אַדְמַ֥ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר יַֽאַרְכוּ֙ הַיָּמִ֔ים וְאָבַ֖ד כָּל־חָזֽוֹן׃

[Ezekiel 12:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.22/)

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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:249` 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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