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title: Ezekiel 22:14 (JPS 1917) — Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? Who acts: heart, hands, I. Ezekiel 22:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 22:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee?

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**Who acts:** heart, hands, I · **What happens:** endure, be, deal · **To what, where:** days

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This is Ezekiel 22:14 · 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 (heart, hands, I), 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:552
# text = Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endure** | can | thy heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | thy hands |  |  |  | day | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deal** | shall | I | the days |  |  |  | with thee | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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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הֲיַעֲמֹ֤ד לִבֵּךְ֙ אִם־תֶּחֱזַ֣קְנָה יָדַ֔יִךְ לַיָּמִ֕ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲנִ֖י עֹשֶׂ֣ה אוֹתָ֑ךְ אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי וְעָשִֽׂיתִי׃

[Ezekiel 22:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.14/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee?**
2. [I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.553/)

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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:552` 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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