--- title: Ezekiel 33:10 (JPS 1917) — Therefore, O thou son of man, say unto the house of Israel: Thus ye… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore, O thou son of man, say unto the house of Israel: Thus ye speak, saying: Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live? Who acts: you, ye, transgressions, we. 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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 (you, ye, transgressions, we), 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:858 # text = Therefore, O thou son of man, say unto the house of Israel: Thus ye speak, saying: Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live? 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 O o INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 4 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 det _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 vocative _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 unto unto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 Thus thus ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 18 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 22 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 transgressions transgression NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 sins sin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 upon upon ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 ccomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 pine pine VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 38 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 39 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | unto the house of Israel; thou son of man *vocative*; therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | ye | | | | | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | ye *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | Our transgressions and our sins | | | | | upon us | tree rules | | 5 | **pine away** | present | we | | | | | in transgressions *= transgression*; away *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **live** | can | we | | | | then | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **transgress** | | Our | | | | | | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְאַתָּ֣ה בֶן־אָדָ֗ם אֱמֹר֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל כֵּ֤ן אֲמַרְתֶּם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר כִּֽי־פְשָׁעֵ֥ינוּ וְחַטֹּאתֵ֖ינוּ עָלֵ֑ינוּ וּבָ֛ם אֲנַ֥חְנוּ נְמַקִּ֖ים וְאֵ֥יךְ נִֽחְיֶֽה׃ [Ezekiel 33:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.33.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:858` 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 33:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.857/) - next →: [Ezekiel 33:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.859/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 33:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.33.10/)