--- title: Ezekiel 22:12 (JPS 1917) — In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken interes… · tree and pragmatics description: In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten Me, saith the Lord GOD. Who acts: abominations, thou, Lord GOD. 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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 (abominations, thou, Lord GOD), 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:550 # text = In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten Me, saith the Lord GOD. 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 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 shed shed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 9 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 12 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 14 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 increase increase NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 20 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 greedily greedily ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 gained gain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 oppression oppression NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 32 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 38 . . 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 | **take** | present · perfect | abominations *= abomination* | gifts | | thee | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gift=Value in thou=Location | | 2 | **shed** | to-infinitive | abominations *= abomination* *not said here* | blood | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source | | 3 | **take** | present · perfect | thou | interest and increase | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme | | 4 | **gain** | present · perfect | thou | | | | | of thy neighbours; by oppression; greedily *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **forget** | present · perfect | thou *not said here* | Me | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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} שֹׁ֥חַד לָֽקְחוּ־בָ֖ךְ לְמַ֣עַן שְׁפָךְ־דָּ֑ם נֶ֧שֶׁךְ וְתַרְבִּ֣ית לָקַ֗חַתְּ וַתְּבַצְּעִ֤י רֵעַ֙יִךְ֙ בַּעֹ֔שֶׁק וְאֹתִ֣י שָׁכַ֔חַתְּ נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ [Ezekiel 22:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:550` 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 22:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.549/) - next →: [Ezekiel 22:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.551/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 22:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.12/)