--- title: Ezekiel 20:24 (JPS 1917) — because they had not executed Mine ordinances, but had rejected My s… · tree and pragmatics description: because they had not executed Mine ordinances, but had rejected My statutes, and had profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. Who acts: ordinances, eyes, Mine. 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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 (ordinances, eyes, 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:478 # text = because they had not executed Mine ordinances, but had rejected My statutes, and had profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. 1 because because SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 executed execute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 Mine my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 ordinances ordinance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 rejected reject VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 12 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 statutes statute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 profaned profane VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 18 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 sabbaths sabbath NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 25 after after ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 ' 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 idols idol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **execute** | past · perfect | ordinances *= ordinance* | Mine ordinances | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordinance=Patient | | 2 | **reject** | past · perfect | ordinances *= ordinance* *not said here* | My statutes | | | | | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statute=Theme | | 3 | **profane** | past · perfect | ordinances *= ordinance* *not said here* | My sabbaths | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | ordinances's eyes | | | | after ordinances's fathers's idols | | tree rules | | 5 | **ordain** | | Mine | | | | | | 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} יַ֜עַן מִשְׁפָּטַ֤י לֹֽא־עָשׂוּ֙ וְחֻקּוֹתַ֣י מָאָ֔סוּ וְאֶת־שַׁבְּתוֹתַ֖י חִלֵּ֑לוּ וְאַחֲרֵי֙ גִּלּוּלֵ֣י אֲבוֹתָ֔ם הָי֖וּ עֵינֵיהֶֽם׃ [Ezekiel 20:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.24/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:478` 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 20:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.477/) - next →: [Ezekiel 20:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.479/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 20:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.24/)