--- title: Ezekiel 22:7 (JPS 1917) — In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of t… · tree and pragmatics description: In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow. Who acts: princes. 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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 (princes), 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:545 # text = In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obl _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nmod _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 dealt deal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 oppression oppression NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 obl _ _ 28 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 wronged wrong VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fatherless fatherless NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · perfect | princes *= prince* | light of father and mother | | thee | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product | | 2 | **deal** | present · perfect | princes *= prince* | | | the midst of thee | | by oppression; with the stranger | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stranger=Theme | | 3 | **wrong** | present · perfect | princes *= prince* | the fatherless and the widow | | thee | | | tree rules | | 4 | **light** | | | father and mother | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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} אָ֤ב וָאֵם֙ הֵקַ֣לּוּ בָ֔ךְ לַגֵּ֛ר עָשׂ֥וּ בַעֹ֖שֶׁק בְּתוֹכֵ֑ךְ יָת֥וֹם וְאַלְמָנָ֖ה ה֥וֹנוּ בָֽךְ׃ [Ezekiel 22:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:545` 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 22:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.544/) - next →: [Ezekiel 22:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.546/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 22:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.7/)