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title: Ezekiel 17:2 (JPS 1917) — 'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel, Who acts: you. Ezekiel 17:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 17:2 · JPS 1917

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'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel,

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put, speak · **To what, where:** riddle, parable · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 17:2 · 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 (you), 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:377
# text = 'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel,
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | a riddle |  |  |  | Son of man *vocative*; forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent riddle=Goal |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a parable |  |  |  | unto the house of Israel | tree rules |

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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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בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם ח֥וּד חִידָ֖ה וּמְשֹׁ֣ל מָשָׁ֑ל אֶל־בֵּ֖ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Ezekiel 17:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.2/)

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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:377` 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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