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title: Isaiah 59:4 (JPS 1917) — None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth; they trust… · tree and pragmatics
description: None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth; they trust in vanity, and speak lies, they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Who acts: None, lips. Isaiah 59:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 59:4 · JPS 1917

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None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth; they trust in vanity, and speak lies, they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

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**Who acts:** None, lips · **What happens:** sue, plead, trust, speak, conceive, bring · **To what, where:** righteousness, truth, vanity, lies, mischief, iniquity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 59:4 · 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 (None, lips), 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:1277
# text = None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth; they trust in vanity, and speak lies, they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sueth	sue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pleadeth	plead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	conceive	conceive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sue** | present | None |  |  | righteousness |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **plead** *speech: request* | present | none |  |  | truth |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **trust** | present | lips *= lip* |  |  | vanity |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | lips *= lip* *not said here* | lies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **conceive** | present | lips *= lip* | mischief |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** | present | lips *= lip* *not said here* | iniquity |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent iniquity=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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אֵין־קֹרֵ֣א בְצֶ֔דֶק וְאֵ֥ין נִשְׁפָּ֖ט בֶּאֱמוּנָ֑ה בָּט֤וֹחַ עַל־תֹּ֙הוּ֙ וְדַבֶּר־שָׁ֔וְא הָר֥וֹ עָמָ֖ל וְהוֹלֵ֥יד אָֽוֶן׃

[Isaiah 59:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.4/)

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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:1277` 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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