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title: Ezekiel 20:25 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and ordinanc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live; Who acts: I, statutes, ordinances. Ezekiel 20:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 20:25 · JPS 1917

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Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live;

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**Who acts:** I, statutes, ordinances · **What happens:** give, not be, not live · **To what, where:** statutes, ordinances

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This is Ezekiel 20:25 · 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, statutes, ordinances), 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:479
# text = Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live;
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
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	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	statutes	statute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	whereby	whereby	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	;	;	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 | statutes and ordinances | ordinances *= ordinance* |  |  | wherefore *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient statute=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | statutes and ordinances |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **live** | should | ordinances *= ordinance* |  |  |  |  | whereby *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְגַם־אֲנִי֙ נָתַ֣תִּי לָהֶ֔ם חֻקִּ֖ים לֹ֣א טוֹבִ֑ים וּמִ֨שְׁפָּטִ֔ים לֹ֥א יִֽחְי֖וּ בָּהֶֽם׃

[Ezekiel 20:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.25/)

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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:479` 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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