--- title: Ezekiel 14:20 (JPS 1917) — though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord… · tree and pragmatics description: though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. Who acts: Noah, I, Lord GOD. 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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 (Noah, I, 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:299 # text = though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 1 though though SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 2 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Daniel Daniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Job Job PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 25 neither neither DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 28 cc _ _ 28 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 souls soul NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 righteousness righteousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Noah and Daniel and Job | | | land | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | I | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **deliver** | shall | Noah | neither son nor daughter | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 5 | **deliver** | shall | Noah | Noah's own souls | | | | by Noah's righteousness | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | 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} וְנֹ֨חַ דָּנִיֵּ֣אלוְאִיּוֹב֮ בְּתוֹכָהּ֒ חַי־אָ֗נִי נְאֻם֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה אִם־בֵּ֥ן אִם־בַּ֖ת יַצִּ֑ילוּ הֵ֥מָּה בְצִדְקָתָ֖ם יַצִּ֥ילוּ נַפְשָֽׁם׃פ [Ezekiel 14:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.14.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:299` 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 14:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.298/) - next →: [Ezekiel 14:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.300/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 14:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.14.20/)