--- title: Ezekiel 16:49 (JPS 1917) — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of… · tree and pragmatics description: Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. Who acts: this, careless ease, sister. 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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 (this, careless ease, sister), 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:361 # text = Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 1 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 Sodom Sodom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 fulness fulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 careless careless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 ease ease NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 32 cc _ _ 30 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 strengthen strengthen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 nmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 39 needy needy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | this | the iniquity | | | | of thy sister | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | careless ease | | | | | in sister | tree rules | | 3 | **strengthen** | past · do-support | sister | the hand of the poor | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=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} הִנֵּה־זֶ֣ה הָיָ֔ה עֲוֺ֖ן סְדֹ֣ם אֲחוֹתֵ֑ךְ גָּא֨וֹן שִׂבְעַת־לֶ֜חֶם וְשַׁלְוַ֣ת הַשְׁקֵ֗ט הָ֤יָה לָהּ֙ וְלִבְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ וְיַד־עָנִ֥י וְאֶבְי֖וֹן לֹ֥א הֶחֱזִֽיקָה׃ [Ezekiel 16:49: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.49/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:361` 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 16:48 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.360/) - next →: [Ezekiel 16:50 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.362/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 16:49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.49/)