--- title: Isaiah 59:5 (JPS 1917) — They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eate… · tree and pragmatics description: They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. Who acts: lips, tongue, that. 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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 (lips, tongue, that), 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:1278 # text = They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 basilisks basilisk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 ' 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 weave weave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 eateth eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 dieth die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 crushed crush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 breaketh break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 viper viper NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hatch** | present | lips *= lip* | basilisks's eggs | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product | | 2 | **weave** | present | lips *= lip* *not said here* | the spider's web | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Product | | 3 | **eat** | present | | | | | | of lips's eggs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of egg=Source | | 4 | **die** | present | tongue | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **crush** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **break out** | present | that | | | | | into a viper *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into viper=Result | 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} בֵּיצֵ֤י צִפְעוֹנִי֙ בִּקֵּ֔עוּ וְקוּרֵ֥י עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ הָאֹכֵ֤ל מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙ יָמ֔וּת וְהַזּוּרֶ֖ה תִּבָּקַ֥ע אֶפְעֶֽה׃ [Isaiah 59:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1278` 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 59:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1277/) - next →: [Isaiah 59:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1279/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 59:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/)