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title: Ezekiel 13:19 (JPS 1917) — And ye have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and f… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezekiel 13:19 · JPS 1917

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And ye have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for crumbs of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to My people that hearken unto lies.

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**Who acts:** ye, souls, your, people · **What happens:** profane, slay, not die, save, not live, lying · **To what, where:** Me, souls

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This is Ezekiel 13:19 · 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 (ye, souls, your, people), 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:275
# text = And ye have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for crumbs of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to My people that hearken unto lies.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	profaned	profane	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	handfuls	handful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	lying	lying	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	advcl	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	hearken	hearken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
47	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **profane** | present · perfect | ye | Me |  |  |  | among My people; for handfuls of barley and crumbs of bread | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | the souls |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **die** | should | the souls |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | the souls |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **live** | should | the souls |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **lying** | gerund | your |  |  |  |  | to My people | tree rules |
| 7 | **hearken** | present | My people |  |  |  |  | unto lies | tree rules |

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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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וַתְּחַלֶּלְ֨נָהאֹתִ֜י אֶל־עַמִּ֗י בְּשַׁעֲלֵ֣י שְׂעֹרִים֮ וּבִפְת֣וֹתֵי לֶחֶם֒ לְהָמִ֤ית נְפָשׁוֹת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־תְמוּתֶ֔נָה וּלְחַיּ֥וֹת נְפָשׁ֖וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־תִֽחְיֶ֑ינָה בְּכַ֨זֶּבְכֶ֔ם לְעַמִּ֖י שֹׁמְעֵ֥י כָזָֽב׃ס

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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:275` of Mova's parse database.

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