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title: Ezekiel 3:9 (JPS 1917) — As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead; fear them… · tree and pragmatics
description: As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.' Who acts: I, forehead. Ezekiel 3:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 3:9 · JPS 1917

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As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.'

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**Who acts:** I, forehead · **What happens:** make, not fear, dismay, be · **To what, where:** forehead, looks, rebellious house

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This is Ezekiel 3:9 · 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, forehead), 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:50
# text = As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.'
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adamant	adamant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fear	fear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	dismayed	dismay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect | I | thy forehead |  |  |  | as a adamant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Product |
| 2 | **not** **fear** | infinitive |  | forehead |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dismay** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  | forehead's looks |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **is a** | present | forehead | a rebellious house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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כְּשָׁמִ֛יר חָזָ֥ק מִצֹּ֖ר נָתַ֣תִּי מִצְחֶ֑ךָ לֹֽא־תִירָ֤א אוֹתָם֙ וְלֹא־תֵחַ֣ת מִפְּנֵיהֶ֔ם כִּ֛י בֵּֽית־מְרִ֖י הֵֽמָּה׃פ

[Ezekiel 3:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.3.9/)

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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:50` 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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