--- title: Isaiah 59:7 (JPS 1917) — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood;… · tree and pragmatics description: Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their paths. Who acts: feet, lips, thoughts. 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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 (feet, lips, thoughts), 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:1280 # text = Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their paths. 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 shed shed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 13 innocent innocent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 desolation desolation NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 destruction destruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 paths path NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | present | lips's feet | | | | | to evil *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to evil=Result | | 2 | **make** | present | lips *= lip* | haste | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | | 3 | **shed** | to-infinitive | lips *= lip* *not said here* | innocent blood | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source | | 4 | **is a** | present | lips's thoughts | thoughts | | | | of iniquity | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | lips's paths | | | tree rules | | 6 | **think** | | lips *= lip* | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} רַגְלֵיהֶם֙ לָרַ֣ע יָרֻ֔צוּ וִֽימַהֲר֔וּ לִשְׁפֹּ֖ךְ דָּ֣ם נָקִ֑י מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת אָ֔וֶן שֹׁ֥ד וָשֶׁ֖בֶר בִּמְסִלּוֹתָֽם׃ [Isaiah 59:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1280` 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 59:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1279/) - next →: [Isaiah 59:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1281/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 59:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.7/)