--- title: Isaiah 46:6 (JPS 1917) — Ye that lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance;… · tree and pragmatics description: Ye that lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance; ye that hire a goldsmith, that he make it a god, to fall down thereto, yea, to worship. Who acts: goldsmith. 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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 (goldsmith), 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:ISA:1035 # text = Ye that lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance; ye that hire a goldsmith, that he make it a god, to fall down thereto, yea, to worship. 1 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 0 root _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lavish lavish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 weigh weigh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 appos _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hire hire VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 goldsmith goldsmith NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 make make VERB VBP Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 32 down down ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 thereto thereto ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 yea yea INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 worship worship VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lavish** | present | | gold | | the bag | | | tree rules | | 2 | **weigh** | present | | silver | | the balance | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme silver=Value | | 3 | **hire** | present | | a goldsmith | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldsmith=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | goldsmith | silver | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 5 | **fall down** | to-infinitive | goldsmith *not said here* | | | | | down, thereto *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **worship** | to-infinitive | goldsmith *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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} הַזָּלִ֤ים זָהָב֙ מִכִּ֔יס וְכֶ֖סֶף בַּקָּנֶ֣ה יִשְׁקֹ֑לוּ יִשְׂכְּר֤וּ צוֹרֵף֙ וְיַעֲשֵׂ֣הוּ אֵ֔ל יִסְגְּד֖וּ אַף־יִֽשְׁתַּחֲוּֽוּ׃ [Isaiah 46:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1035` 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: [Isaiah 46:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1034/) - next →: [Isaiah 46:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1036/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 46:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.6/)