--- title: Ezekiel 16:30 (JPS 1917) — How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all the… · tree and pragmatics description: How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of a wanton harlot; Who acts: Lord GOD, thou, wanton harlot. Ezekiel 16:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.342/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Ezekiel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/16/) / [16:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.30/) / JPS 1 # Ezekiel 16:30 · JPS 1917 How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of a wanton harlot; **Who acts:** Lord GOD, thou, wanton harlot · **What happens:** be, say, see, do, work · **To what, where:** heart, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Ezekiel 16:30 · 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 (Lord GOD, thou, wanton harlot), 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:342 # text = How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of a wanton harlot; 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 13 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj _ _ 14 doest do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 wanton wanton ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 harlot harlot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: express - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q, act=express, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | thy heart | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** | gerund | the Lord GOD *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **do** | present | thou | all things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 5 | **work** | | a wanton harlot | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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} מָ֤ה אֲמֻלָה֙ לִבָּתֵ֔ךְ נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה בַּעֲשׂוֹתֵךְ֙ אֶת־כָּל־אֵ֔לֶּה מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה אִשָּֽׁה־זוֹנָ֖ה שַׁלָּֽטֶת׃ [Ezekiel 16:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.30/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:342` 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 16:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.341/) - next →: [Ezekiel 16:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.343/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 16:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.30/)