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title: Isaiah 47:14 (JPS 1917) — Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they sha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before. Who acts: astrologers, fire. Isaiah 47:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 47:14 · JPS 1917

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Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

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**Who acts:** astrologers, fire · **What happens:** be, burn, not deliver, not be, warm, sit · **To what, where:** astrologers, power, coal

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This is Isaiah 47:14 · 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 (astrologers, fire), 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:1056
# text = Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	stubble	stubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	39	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl	_	_
42	before	before	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | astrologers *= astrologer* |  |  |  |  | as stubble and a coal nor a fire | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | shall | the fire | astrologers *= astrologer* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **deliver** | shall | astrologers *= astrologer* | astrologers *= astrologer* |  | the power of the flame |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme from power=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | shall | fire | a coal nor a fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **warm** | to-infinitive | astrologers *= astrologer* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **sit** | to-infinitive | fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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הִנֵּ֨ה הָי֤וּ כְקַשׁ֙ אֵ֣שׁ שְׂרָפָ֔תַם לֹֽא־יַצִּ֥ילוּ אֶת־נַפְשָׁ֖ם מִיַּ֣ד לֶֽהָבָ֑ה אֵין־גַּחֶ֣לֶת לַחְמָ֔ם א֖וּר לָשֶׁ֥בֶת נֶגְדּֽוֹ׃

[Isaiah 47:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.14/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1056` 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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