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title: Ezekiel 2:5 (JPS 1917) — And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear — for… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear — for they are a rebellious house — yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. Who acts: children, prophet. Ezekiel 2:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 2:5 · JPS 1917

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And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear — for they are a rebellious house — yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.

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**Who acts:** children, prophet · **What happens:** hear, forbear, be, know · **To what, where:** rebellious house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 2:5 · 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, prophet), 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:35
# text = And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear — for they are a rebellious house — yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	forbear	forbear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	_
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
27	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	among	among	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **hear** | future | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **forbear** | future | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | children *= child* | a rebellious house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | shall | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** | present · perfect | a prophet among children |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְהֵ֙מָּה֙ אִם־יִשְׁמְע֣וּ וְאִם־יֶחְדָּ֔לוּ כִּ֛י בֵּ֥ית מְרִ֖י הֵ֑מָּה וְיָ֣דְע֔וּ כִּ֥י נָבִ֖יא הָיָ֥ה בְתוֹכָֽם׃פ

[Ezekiel 2:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.2.5/)

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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:35` 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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