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title: Ezekiel 20:11 (JPS 1917) — And I gave them My statutes, and taught them Mine ordinances, which… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I gave them My statutes, and taught them Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them. Who acts: I, man, Mine. Ezekiel 20:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 20:11 · JPS 1917

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And I gave them My statutes, and taught them Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.

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**Who acts:** I, man, Mine · **What happens:** give, teach, do, live, ordain · **To what, where:** statutes, elders, ordinances

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This is Ezekiel 20:11 · 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 (I, man, 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:465
# text = And I gave them My statutes, and taught them Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	Mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | I | My statutes | elders *= elder* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient statute=Theme |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | I *not said here* | Mine ordinances | elders *= elder* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient ordinance=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 4 | **live** | shall | man |  |  |  |  | by elders *= elder* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by they=Location |
| 5 | **ordain** |  | Mine |  |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וָאֶתֵּ֤ן לָהֶם֙ אֶת־חֻקּוֹתַ֔י וְאֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֖י הוֹדַ֣עְתִּי אוֹתָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה אוֹתָ֛ם הָאָדָ֖ם וָחַ֥י בָּהֶֽם׃

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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:465` 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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