--- title: Ezekiel 24:16 (JPS 1917) — 'Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet neither shalt thou make lamentation nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. Who acts: I, thou, tears. 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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 (I, thou, tears), 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:637 # text = 'Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet neither shalt thou make lamentation nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 2 Son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 vocative _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 behold behold INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 obl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 26 cc:preconj _ _ 24 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 26 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 27 lamentation lamentation NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 29 cc _ _ 29 weep weep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 35 cc:preconj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 36 down down ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take away** | present | I | the desire of thine eyes | | thee | | with a stroke; Son of man *vocative*; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme from thou=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **make** | shall | thou | lamentation | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lamentation=Product | | 3 | **weep** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **run down** | shall | thy tears | | | | | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **desire** | | | thine eyes | | | | | nom desire «feeling 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} בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם הִנְנִ֨י לֹקֵ֧חַ מִמְּךָ֛ אֶת־מַחְמַ֥ד עֵינֶ֖יךָ בְּמַגֵּפָ֑ה וְלֹ֤א תִסְפֹּד֙ וְלֹ֣א תִבְכֶּ֔ה וְל֥וֹא תָב֖וֹא דִּמְעָתֶֽךָ׃ [Ezekiel 24:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:637` 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 24:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.636/) - next →: [Ezekiel 24:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.638/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 24:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.16/)