---
title: Isaiah 57:4 (JPS 1917) — Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? · tree and pragmatics
description: Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? Who acts: ye. Isaiah 57:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1234/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/) / [chapter 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/57/) / [57:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.4/) / JPS 2

# Isaiah 57:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** make, draw out · **To what, where:** wide mouth, tongue

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Isaiah 57:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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 (ye), 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:1234
# text = Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue?
1	Against	against	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obl	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | ye | a wide mouth |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mouth=Product |
| 2 | **draw out** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | the tongue |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
עַל־מִי֙ תִּתְעַנָּ֔גוּ עַל־מִ֛י תַּרְחִ֥יבוּ פֶ֖ה תַּאֲרִ֣יכוּ לָשׁ֑וֹן הֲלֽוֹא־אַתֶּ֥ם יִלְדֵי־פֶ֖שַׁע זֶ֥רַע שָֽׁקֶר׃

[Isaiah 57:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.4/)

<!-- .note -->
This verse in JPS 1917:

<!-- .ens -->
1. [Against whom do ye sport yourselves?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1233/)
2. **Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue?**
3. [Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1235/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1234` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Isaiah 57:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1233/)
- next →: [Isaiah 57:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1235/)
- ↑ back to [Isaiah 57:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.4/)