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title: Ezekiel 3:26 (JPS 1917) — and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that tho… · tree and pragmatics
description: and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house. Who acts: I, tongue, thou, bands. Ezekiel 3:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 3:26 · JPS 1917

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and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

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**Who acts:** I, tongue, thou, bands · **What happens:** make, cleave, be, not be · **To what, where:** tongue, reprover, bands, rebellious house

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This is Ezekiel 3:26 · 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 (I, tongue, thou, bands), 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:67
# text = and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	cleave	cleave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
17	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	reprover	reprover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | future | I | thy tongue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cleave** | infinitive | thy tongue *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the roof of thy mouth *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to roof=Result |
| 3 | **is** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | dumb *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | shall | I *not said here* | a reprover | bands *= band* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | bands *= band* | a rebellious house |  |  |  |  | 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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וּלְשֽׁוֹנְךָ֙ אַדְבִּ֣יק אֶל־חִכֶּ֔ךָ וְנֶֽאֱלַ֔מְתָּ וְלֹא־תִֽהְיֶ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם לְאִ֣ישׁ מוֹכִ֑יחַ כִּ֛י בֵּ֥ית מְרִ֖י הֵֽמָּה׃

[Ezekiel 3:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.3.26/)

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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:67` 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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