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title: Ezekiel 33:8 (JPS 1917) — When I say unto the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: When I say unto the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, and thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thy hand. Who acts: I, thou, wicked man. Ezekiel 33:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Ezekiel 33:8 · JPS 1917

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When I say unto the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, and thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thy hand.

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**Who acts:** I, thou, wicked man · **What happens:** say, die, not speak, warn, require · **To what, where:** wicked, way, blood, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ezekiel 33:8 · 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 (I, thou, wicked man), 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:856
# text = When I say unto the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, and thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thy hand.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
13	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
19	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I |  |  |  |  | unto the wicked | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | wicked man *vocative*; surely *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · do-support | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | the wicked |  | man's way |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wicked=Recipient |
| 5 | **die** | shall | that wicked man |  |  |  |  | in man's iniquity | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in iniquity=Attribute |
| 6 | **require** | future | I | man's blood |  | thy hand |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme blood=Precondition |

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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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בְּאָמְרִ֣י לָרָשָׁ֗ע רָשָׁע֙ מ֣וֹת תָּמ֔וּת וְלֹ֣א דִבַּ֔רְתָּ לְהַזְהִ֥יר רָשָׁ֖ע מִדַּרְכּ֑וֹ ה֤וּא רָשָׁע֙ בַּעֲוֺנ֣וֹ יָמ֔וּת וְדָמ֖וֹ מִיָּדְךָ֥ אֲבַקֵּֽשׁ׃

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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:856` of Mova's parse database.

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