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title: Ezekiel 18:5 (JPS 1917) — But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, · tree and pragmatics
description: But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, Who acts: man. Ezekiel 18:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 18:5 · JPS 1917

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But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** that

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This is Ezekiel 18:5 · 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 (man), 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:407
# text = But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	just	just	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	lawful	lawful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | a man |  |  |  |  | just *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | a man *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | lawful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וְאִ֖ישׁ כִּי־יִהְיֶ֣ה צַדִּ֑יק וְעָשָׂ֥ה מִשְׁפָּ֖ט וּצְדָקָֽה׃

[Ezekiel 18:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.5/)

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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:407` 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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