Ezekiel 13:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the women that sew cushions upon all elbows, and make pads for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls!
Who acts: you, Lord GOD, women · What happens: say, sew, make, hunt · To what, where: cushions, elbows, pads, souls · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ezekiel 13:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (you, Lord GOD, women), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 say | cc |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 saith | punct |
| 4 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 saith | advmod |
| 5 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 GOD | det |
| 7 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 GOD | compound |
| 8 | GOD | GOD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saith | nsubj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Woe | punct |
| 10 | Woe | Woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saith | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 women | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 women | det |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Woe | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 sew | nsubj |
| 15 | sew | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 women | acl:relcl |
| 16 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sew | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 elbows | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 elbows | det |
| 19 | elbows | elbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sew | conj |
| 23 | pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 head | det |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 persons | case |
| 28 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 head | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 stature | case |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 stature | det |
| 31 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 persons | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 hunt | mark |
| 33 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 make | advcl |
| 34 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hunt | obj |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- warn
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Lord GOD | thus property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sew | present | the women | cushions | all elbows | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cushion=Theme upon elbow=Destination | |||
| 4 | make | present | the women not said here | pads | for the head of persons of every stature | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent pad=Product for head=Asset | |||
| 5 | hunt | to-infinitive | the women not said here | souls | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
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
וְאָמַרְתָּ֞ כֹּה־אָמַ֣ר ׀ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה הוֹי֩ לִֽמְתַפְּר֨וֹת כְּסָת֜וֹת עַ֣ל ׀ כָּל־אַצִּילֵ֣י יָדַ֗י וְעֹשׂ֧וֹת הַמִּסְפָּח֛וֹת עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ כָּל־קוֹמָ֖ה לְצוֹדֵ֣ד נְפָשׁ֑וֹת הַנְּפָשׁוֹת֙ תְּצוֹדֵ֣דְנָה לְעַמִּ֔י וּנְפָשׁ֖וֹת לָכֶ֥נָה תְחַיֶּֽינָה׃
Ezekiel 13:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the women that sew cushions upon all elbows, and make pads for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls!
- Will ye hunt the souls of My people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EZK:273 of Mova's parse database.
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