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title: Ezekiel 12:23 (JPS 1917) — Tell them therefore: Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will make this prove… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell them therefore: Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them: The days are at hand, and the word of every vision. Who acts: you, Lord GOD, I, proverb. Ezekiel 12:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and th
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# Ezekiel 12:23 · JPS 1917

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Tell them therefore: Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them: The days are at hand, and the word of every vision.

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**Who acts:** you, Lord GOD, I, proverb, abominations, days · **What happens:** tell, say, make, cease, use, be · **To what, where:** abominations, proverb, hand, vision · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 12:23 · 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, Lord GOD, I, proverb), 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:250
# text = Tell them therefore: Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them: The days are at hand, and the word of every vision.
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	no	no	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
34	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
39	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	ccomp	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
48	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | abominations *= abomination* |  |  | therefore *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | future | I | this proverb |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cease** | to-infinitive | this proverb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **use** | shall | abominations *= abomination* | proverb |  |  |  | as a proverb in Israel | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as proverb=Attribute |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto abominations *= abomination* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | the days |  |  | hand and the word of every vision |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **word** |  |  | every vision |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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לָכֵ֞ן אֱמֹ֣ר אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּֽה־אָמַר֮ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִה֒ הִשְׁבַּ֙תִּי֙ אֶת־הַמָּשָׁ֣ל הַזֶּ֔ה וְלֹֽא־יִמְשְׁל֥וּ אֹת֛וֹ ע֖וֹד בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּ֚י אִם־דַּבֵּ֣ר אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם קָֽרְבוּ֙ הַיָּמִ֔ים וּדְבַ֖ר כָּל־חָזֽוֹן׃

[Ezekiel 12:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.23/)

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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:250` of Mova's parse database.

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