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title: Ezekiel 20:31 (JPS 1917) — and when, in offering your gifts, in making your sons to pass throug… · tree and pragmatics
description: and when, in offering your gifts, in making your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, unto this day; shall I then be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? Who acts: ye, sons, you, your. Ezekiel 20:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Ezekiel 20:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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and when, in offering your gifts, in making your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, unto this day; shall I then be inquired of by you, O house of Israel?

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**Who acts:** ye, sons, you, your · **What happens:** offer, make, pass, pollute, inquire of, gift · **To what, where:** gifts, sons, fire, yourselves, I

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This is Ezekiel 20:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (ye, sons, you, your), 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:486
# text = and when, in offering your gifts, in making your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, unto this day; shall I then be inquired of by you, O house of Israel?
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pollute	pollute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
21	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	idols	idol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obl:agent	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	41	discourse	_	_
41	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	vocative	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | gerund | ye *not said here* | your gifts |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | ye *not said here* | your sons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive | your sons *not said here* |  |  | the fire |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through fire=Location |
| 4 | **pollute** | present | ye | yourselves |  |  | day | with your idols | tree rules |
| 5 | **inquire of** *speech: other* | shall · passive | you | I |  |  | then | house of Israel *vocative* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **gift** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וּבִשְׂאֵ֣ת מַתְּנֹֽתֵיכֶ֡ם בְּֽהַעֲבִיר֩ בְּנֵיכֶ֨ם בָּאֵ֜שׁ אַתֶּם֩ נִטְמְאִ֤֨ים לְכָל־גִּלּֽוּלֵיכֶם֙ עַד־הַיּ֔וֹם וַאֲנִ֛י אִדָּרֵ֥שׁ לָכֶ֖ם בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל חַי־אָ֗נִי נְאֻם֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה אִם־אִדָּרֵ֖שׁ לָכֶֽם׃

[Ezekiel 20:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.31/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **and when, in offering your gifts, in making your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, unto this day; shall I then be inquired of by you, O house of Israel?**
2. [As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.487/)

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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:486` of Mova's parse database.

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