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title: Ezekiel 22:28 (JPS 1917) — And her prophets have daubed for them with whited plaster, seeing fa… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ezekiel 22:28 · JPS 1917

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And her prophets have daubed for them with whited plaster, seeing falsehood, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

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**Who acts:** prophets, Lord GOD, LORD · **What happens:** daub, see, divine, say, not speak · **To what, where:** falsehood, lies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 22:28 · 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 (prophets, Lord GOD, LORD), 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:567
# text = And her prophets have daubed for them with whited plaster, seeing falsehood, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	daubed	daub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	whited	whited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	plaster	plaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	divining	divine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
27	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	34	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **daub** | present · perfect | conspiracy's prophets |  |  |  |  | for wolves *= wolf*; with whited plaster | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with plaster=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | conspiracy's prophets *not said here* | falsehood |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer falsehood=Stimulus |
| 3 | **divine** | gerund | conspiracy's prophets *not said here* | lies |  |  |  | unto wolves *= wolf* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | conspiracy's prophets *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וּנְבִיאֶ֗יהָ טָח֤וּ לָהֶם֙ תָּפֵ֔ל חֹזִ֣ים שָׁ֔וְא וְקֹסְמִ֥ים לָהֶ֖ם כָּזָ֑ב אֹמְרִ֗ים כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וַֽיהוָ֖ה לֹ֥א דִבֵּֽר׃

[Ezekiel 22:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.28/)

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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:567` 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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