--- title: Ezekiel 18:9 (JPS 1917) — hath walked in My statutes, and hath kept Mine ordinances, to deal t… · tree and pragmatics description: hath walked in My statutes, and hath kept Mine ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD. Who acts: man, Lord GOD, Mine. 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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 (man, Lord GOD, Mine), 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:411 # text = hath walked in My statutes, and hath kept Mine ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD. 1 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 aux _ _ 2 walked walk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 10 Mine mine PRON PRP Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 ordinances ordinance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 deal deal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 15 truly truly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 just just ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 surely surely ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 saith say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present · perfect | | | | My statutes | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in statute=Trajectory | | 2 | **keep** | present · perfect | | Mine ordinances | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordinance=Theme | | 3 | **deal** | to-infinitive | | | | | | truly *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | just *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **live** | shall | man | | | | | surely *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Lord GOD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **ordain** | | Mine | | | | | | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=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} בְּחֻקּוֹתַ֧י יְהַלֵּ֛ךְ וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֥י שָׁמַ֖ר לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת אֱמֶ֑ת צַדִּ֥יק הוּא֙ חָיֹ֣ה יִֽחְיֶ֔ה נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ [Ezekiel 18:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:411` 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 18:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.410/) - next →: [Ezekiel 18:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.412/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 18:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.9/)