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title: Isaiah 54:17 (JPS 1917) — No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongu… · tree and pragmatics
description: No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. Who acts: weapon, tongue, thou. Isaiah 54:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 54:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.

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**Who acts:** weapon, tongue, thou · **What happens:** form, prosper, rise, condemn · **To what, where:** weapon, judgment, tongue

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This is Isaiah 54:17 · 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 (weapon, tongue, thou), 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:1202
# text = No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	9	aux	_	_
9	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	16	aux	_	_
16	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	condemn	condemn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present · passive |  | no weapon |  |  |  | against thee | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **prosper** | shall | no weapon |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** | shall | every tongue |  |  | judgment |  | against thee | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against thou=Location |
| 4 | **condemn** | shall | thou | every tongue |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |

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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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כָּל־כְּלִ֞י יוּצַ֤ר עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ לֹ֣א יִצְלָ֔ח וְכָל־לָשׁ֛וֹן תָּֽקוּם־אִתָּ֥ךְ לַמִּשְׁפָּ֖ט תַּרְשִׁ֑יעִי זֹ֡את נַחֲלַת֩ עַבְדֵ֨י יְהוָ֧ה וְצִדְקָתָ֛ם מֵאִתִּ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס

[Isaiah 54:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.54.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.**
2. [This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their due reward from Me, saith the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1203/)

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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:1202` 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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