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title: Ezekiel 14:14 (JPS 1917) — though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they shou… · tree and pragmatics
description: though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD. Who acts: three men, Noah, Lord GOD. Ezekiel 14:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 14:14 · JPS 1917

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though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.

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**Who acts:** three men, Noah, Lord GOD · **What happens:** be, deliver, say · **To what, where:** own souls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 14:14 · 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 (three men, Noah, Lord GOD), 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:293
# text = though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
1	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Job	Job	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	ADV	RB	_	19	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
20	but	but	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | past | this three men |  |  |  |  | it *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deliver** | should | Noah | Noah's own souls |  |  |  | by Noah's righteousness | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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וְ֠הָיוּ שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת הָאֲנָשִׁ֤ים הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ בְּתוֹכָ֔הּ נֹ֖חַ דָּנִיֵּ֣אלוְאִיּ֑וֹב הֵ֤מָּה בְצִדְקָתָם֙ יְנַצְּל֣וּ נַפְשָׁ֔ם נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃

[Ezekiel 14:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.14.14/)

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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:293` 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.

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