--- title: Ezekiel 20:31 (JPS 1917) — As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you; · tree and pragmatics description: As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you; Who acts: I, Lord GOD, you. 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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 (I, Lord GOD, you), 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:487 # text = As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you; 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 5 saith say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 inquired inquire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 14 obl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obl:agent _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: offer - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | I | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Lord GOD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **inquire** *speech: other* | future · passive | you | I | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | 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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.486/) 2. **As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you;** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:487` 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 20:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.486/) - next →: [Ezekiel 20:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.488/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 20:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.31/)