--- title: Ezekiel 18:25 (JPS 1917) — Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is not equal? is it n… · tree and pragmatics description: Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal? Who acts: you, house, way, ways. Ezekiel 18:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.430/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Ezekiel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/) / [chapter 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/18/) / [18:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.25/) / JPS 2 # Ezekiel 18:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal? **Who acts:** you, house, way, ways · **What happens:** hear, be, not be · **To what, where:** way, ways This is Ezekiel 18:25 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, house, way, ways), 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:430 # text = Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal? 1 Hear hear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 O o INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 parataxis _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 unequal unequal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | now | house of Israel *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | house | My way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | My way | | | | | equal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | house | your ways | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | your ways | | | | | unequal *property* | tree rules | 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} וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם לֹ֥א יִתָּכֵ֖ן דֶּ֣רֶךְ אֲדֹנָ֑י שִׁמְעוּ־נָא֙ בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הֲדַרְכִּי֙ לֹ֣א יִתָּכֵ֔ן הֲלֹ֥א דַרְכֵיכֶ֖ם לֹ֥א יִתָּכֵֽנוּ׃ [Ezekiel 18:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.25/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Yet ye say: The way of the Lord is not equal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.429/) 2. **Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:430` 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 18:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.429/) - next →: [Ezekiel 18:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.431/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 18:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.25/)