--- title: Ezekiel 14:6 (JPS 1917) — Therefore say unto the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Ret… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore say unto the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. Who acts: you, Lord GOD, ye. 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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 (you, Lord GOD, ye), 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:285 # text = Therefore say unto the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Thus thus ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Return return VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 16 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 turn turn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 yourselves yourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 idols idol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 turn turn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 away away ADV RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 abominations abomination NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | unto the house of Israel; therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 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 | **return** | infinitive | ye | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | yourselves | | your idols | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme from idol=Trajectory | | 5 | **turn away** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | your faces | | your abominations | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent face=Theme from abomination=Source | 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} לָכֵ֞ן אֱמֹ֣ר ׀ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה שׁ֣וּבוּ וְהָשִׁ֔יבוּ מֵעַ֖ל גִּלּֽוּלֵיכֶ֑ם וּמֵעַ֥ל כָּל־תּוֹעֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖ם הָשִׁ֥יבוּ פְנֵיכֶֽם׃ [Ezekiel 14:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.14.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:285` 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 14:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.284/) - next →: [Ezekiel 14:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.286/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 14:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.14.6/)