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title: Ezekiel 2:4 (JPS 1917) — and the children are brazen-faced and stiff-hearted, I do send thee… · tree and pragmatics
description: and the children are brazen-faced and stiff-hearted, I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD. Who acts: children, I, thou. Ezekiel 2:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 2:4 · JPS 1917

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and the children are brazen-faced and stiff-hearted, I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD.

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**Who acts:** children, I, thou · **What happens:** be, send, say · **To what, where:** thee, Lord GOD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 2:4 · 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 (children, I, thou), 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:34
# text = and the children are brazen-faced and stiff-hearted, I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	faced	brazen-faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	hearted	stiff-hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
24	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
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	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the children |  |  |  |  | brazen-faced *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | present · do-support | I | thee |  |  |  | unto children *= child* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | unto children *= child* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | the Lord GOD |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent god=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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וְהַבָּנִ֗ים קְשֵׁ֤י פָנִים֙ וְחִזְקֵי־לֵ֔ב אֲנִ֛י שׁוֹלֵ֥חַ אוֹתְךָ֖ אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהֹוִֽה׃

[Ezekiel 2:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.2.4/)

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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:34` 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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