--- title: Ezekiel 3:7 (JPS 1917) — But the house of Israel will not consent to hearken unto thee; for t… · tree and pragmatics description: But the house of Israel will not consent to hearken unto thee; for they consent not to hearken unto Me; for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and of a stiff heart. Who acts: house, speech. 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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 (house, speech), 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:48 # text = But the house of Israel will not consent to hearken unto thee; for they consent not to hearken unto Me; for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and of a stiff heart. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 consent consent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 hearken hearken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 unto unto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 consent consent VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 hearken hearken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 unto unto ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 24 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 26 det:predet _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **consent** | future | the house of Israel | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **hearken** | to-infinitive | the house of Israel *not said here* | | | | | unto thee | tree rules | | 3 | **consent** | present | speech | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **not** **hearken** | to-infinitive | speech *not said here* | | | | | unto Me | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | all house of Israel | | | | | of a hard forehead and a stiff heart | tree rules | 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} וּבֵ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לֹ֤א יֹאבוּ֙ לִשְׁמֹ֣עַ אֵלֶ֔יךָ כִּֽי־אֵינָ֥ם אֹבִ֖ים לִשְׁמֹ֣עַ אֵלָ֑י כִּ֚י כָּל־בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל חִזְקֵי־מֵ֥צַח וּקְשֵׁי־לֵ֖ב הֵֽמָּה׃ [Ezekiel 3:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.3.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:48` 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 3:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.47/) - next →: [Ezekiel 3:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.49/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 3:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.3.7/)