--- title: Ezekiel 20:18 (JPS 1917) — And I said unto their children in the wilderness: Walk ye not in the… · tree and pragmatics description: And I said unto their children in the wilderness: Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols; Who acts: I, ye, elders. 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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 (I, ye, 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:472 # text = And I said unto their children in the wilderness: Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 12 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 22 cc _ _ 22 observe observe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 ordinances ordinance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 27 cc _ _ 27 defile defile VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 28 yourselves yourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 idols idol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed voice=character, act=request, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I | | | the wilderness | | unto elders's children | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **walk** | infinitive | ye | | | the statutes of your fathers | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in statute=Trajectory | | 3 | **observe** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | elders's ordinances | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ordinance=Topic | | 4 | **defile** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | yourselves | | | | with elders's idols | tree rules | | 5 | **ordain** | | elders *= elder* | | | | | | 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} וָאֹמַ֤ר אֶל־בְּנֵיהֶם֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר בְּחוּקֵּ֤י אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ אַל־תֵּלֵ֔כוּ וְאֶת־מִשְׁפְּטֵיהֶ֖ם אַל־תִּשְׁמֹ֑רוּ וּבְגִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖ם אַל־תִּטַּמָּֽאוּ׃ [Ezekiel 20:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.18/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:472` 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 20:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.471/) - next →: [Ezekiel 20:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.473/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 20:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.18/)