--- title: Ezekiel 14:3 (JPS 1917) — 'Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their mind, and pu… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their mind, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face; should I be inquired of at all by them? Who acts: men, elders. 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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 (men, elders), 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:282 # text = 'Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their mind, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face; should I be inquired of at all by them? 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 2 Son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 vocative _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 idols idol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stumblingblock stumblingblock NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 before before ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 inquired inquire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 all all ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl:agent _ _ 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set up** | present · perfect | this men | elders's idols | | elders's mind | | Son of man *vocative* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent idol=Theme in mind=Destination | | 2 | **put** | participle | this men *not said here* | the stumblingblock of elders's iniquity | | elders's face | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stumblingblock=Theme before face=Destination | | 3 | **inquire of** *speech: other* | should · passive | elders *= elder* | I | | | | all *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | | 4 | **mind** | | elders *= elder* | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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} בֶּן־אָדָ֗ם הָאֲנָשִׁ֤ים הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ הֶעֱל֤וּ גִלּֽוּלֵיהֶם֙ עַל־לִבָּ֔ם וּמִכְשׁ֣וֹל עֲוֺנָ֔ם נָתְנ֖וּ נֹ֣כַח פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם הַאִדָּרֹ֥שׁ אִדָּרֵ֖שׁ לָהֶֽם׃ס [Ezekiel 14:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.14.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:282` 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 14:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.281/) - next →: [Ezekiel 14:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.283/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 14:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.14.3/)