--- title: Ezekiel 20:3 (JPS 1917) — 'Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them: Thu… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Are ye come to inquire of Me? Who acts: you, Lord GOD, ye. 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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 (you, Lord GOD, ye), 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:456 # text = 'Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Are ye come to inquire of Me? 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 speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 elders elder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 unto unto ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Thus thus ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 26 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 inquire inquire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | unto the elders of Israel; Son of man *vocative* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | unto elders *= elder* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **come** | present · passive | ye | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | of Me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of i=Recipient | 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} בֶּן־אָדָ֗ם דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶת־זִקְנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הֲלִדְרֹ֥שׁ אֹתִ֖י אַתֶּ֣ם בָּאִ֑ים חַי־אָ֙נִי֙ אִם־אִדָּרֵ֣שׁ לָכֶ֔ם נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ [Ezekiel 20:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.3/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **'Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Are ye come to inquire of Me?** 2. [As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.457/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:456` 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 20:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.455/) - next →: [Ezekiel 20:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.457/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 20:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.3/)