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title: Ezekiel 25:8 (JPS 1917) — Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because that Moab and Seir do say: Behold,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because that Moab and Seir do say: Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations, Who acts: Lord GOD, Moab, house. Ezekiel 25:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 25:8 · JPS 1917

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Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because that Moab and Seir do say: Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations,

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**Who acts:** Lord GOD, Moab, house · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 25:8 · 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 (Lord GOD, Moab, house), 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:656
# text = Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because that Moab and Seir do say: Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations,
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Seir	Seir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
15	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	ccomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Moab and Seir |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the house of Judah |  |  |  |  | like the nations | tree rules |

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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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כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה יַ֗עַן אֲמֹ֤ר מוֹאָב֙ וְשֵׂעִ֔יר הִנֵּ֥ה כְּכָֽל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם בֵּ֥ית יְהוּדָֽה׃

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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:656` 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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