--- title: Ezekiel 13:7 (JPS 1917) — Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divin… · tree and pragmatics description: Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say: The LORD saith; albeit I have not spoken? Who acts: ye, LORD, I. 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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 (ye, LORD, I), 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:262 # text = Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say: The LORD saith; albeit I have not spoken? 1 Have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 vision vision NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 lying lying ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 divination divination NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 whereas whereas SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 nsubj _ _ 20 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 26 albeit albeit SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 31 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | ye | a vain vision | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | ye | a lying divination | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ye | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} הֲל֤וֹא מַֽחֲזֵה־שָׁוְא֙ חֲזִיתֶ֔ם וּמִקְסַ֥ם כָּזָ֖ב אֲמַרְתֶּ֑ם וְאֹֽמְרִים֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה וַאֲנִ֖י לֹ֥א דִבַּֽרְתִּי׃ס [Ezekiel 13:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:262` 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. - ← previous: [Ezekiel 13:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.261/) - next →: [Ezekiel 13:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.263/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 13:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.7/)