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title: Ezekiel 23:37 (JPS 1917) — For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and w… · tree and pragmatics
description: For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery; and their sons, whom they bore unto Me, they have also set apart unto them to be devoured. Who acts: abominations, blood. Ezekiel 23:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Ezekiel 23:37 · JPS 1917

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For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery; and their sons, whom they bore unto Me, they have also set apart unto them to be devoured.

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**Who acts:** abominations, blood · **What happens:** commit, be, bear, set apart, devour · **To what, where:** adultery, hands, sons

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This is Ezekiel 23:37 · 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 (abominations, blood), 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:608
# text = For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery; and their sons, whom they bore unto Me, they have also set apart unto them to be devoured.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	committed	commit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	adultery	adultery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	idols	idol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	committed	commit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
21	adultery	adultery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	dislocated	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	also	also	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
37	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commit** | present · perfect | abominations *= abomination* | adultery |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adultery=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | blood |  |  | abominations's hands |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **commit** | present · perfect | abominations *= abomination* | adultery |  |  |  | with abominations's idols | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adultery=Theme |
| 4 | **bear** | past | abominations *= abomination* | abominations's sons |  |  |  | unto Me | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 5 | **set apart** | present · perfect | abominations *= abomination* |  |  |  |  | unto idols *= idol*; abominations's sons *dislocated*; apart *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **devour** | to-infinitive · passive | abominations *= abomination* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP» |

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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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כִּ֣י נִאֵ֗פוּ וְדָם֙ בִּֽידֵיהֶ֔ן וְאֶת־גִּלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖ן נִאֵ֑פוּ וְגַ֤ם אֶת־בְּנֵיהֶן֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָֽלְדוּ־לִ֔י הֶעֱבִ֥ירוּ לָהֶ֖ם לְאָכְלָֽה׃

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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:608` 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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