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title: Ezekiel 20:27 (JPS 1917) — Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed Me, in that they dealt treacherously with Me. Who acts: you, Lord GOD, fathers, ordinances. Ezekiel 20:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Ezekiel 20:27 · JPS 1917

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Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed Me, in that they dealt treacherously with Me.

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**Who acts:** you, Lord GOD, fathers, ordinances · **What happens:** speak, say, blaspheme, deal · **To what, where:** Me, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 20:27 · 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 (you, Lord GOD, fathers, 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:481
# text = Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed Me, in that they dealt treacherously with Me.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
25	In	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	obl	_	_
27	moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	blasphemed	blaspheme	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
32	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	dealt	deal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	treacherously	treacherously	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the house of Israel; son of man *vocative*; therefore *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto ordinances *= ordinance* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **blaspheme** | present · perfect | your fathers | Me |  | this |  | moreover *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **deal** | past | ordinances *= ordinance* |  |  |  |  | with Me; treacherously *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with i=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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לָכֵ֞ן דַּבֵּ֨ר אֶל־בֵּ֤ית יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בֶּן־אָדָ֔ם וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה ע֗וֹד זֹ֚את גִּדְּפ֤וּ אוֹתִי֙ אֲב֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם בְּמַעֲלָ֥ם בִּ֖י מָֽעַל׃

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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:481` 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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