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title: Ezekiel 20:4 (JPS 1917) — Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers; Who acts: thou, elders. Ezekiel 20:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 20:4 · JPS 1917

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Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;

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**Who acts:** thou, elders · **What happens:** judge, cause, know · **To what, where:** elders, abominations

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This is Ezekiel 20:4 · 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 (thou, elders), 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:458
# text = Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;
1	Wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
15	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	abominations	abomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | future | thou | elders *= elder* |  |  |  | son of man *vocative* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent they=Value |
| 2 | **judge** | future | thou | elders *= elder* |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent they=Value |
| 3 | **cause** | infinitive |  | elders *= elder* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | to-infinitive | elders *= elder* *not said here* | the abominations of elders's fathers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer abomination=Stimulus |

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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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הֲתִשְׁפֹּ֣ט אֹתָ֔ם הֲתִשְׁפּ֖וֹט בֶּן־אָדָ֑ם אֶת־תּוֹעֲבֹ֥ת אֲבוֹתָ֖ם הוֹדִיעֵֽם׃

[Ezekiel 20:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.4/)

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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:458` 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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