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title: Isaiah 7:15 (JPS 1917) — Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good. Who acts: LORD. Isaiah 7:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 7:15 · JPS 1917

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Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** eat, know, refuse, choose · **To what, where:** Curd, evil, good

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This is Isaiah 7:15 · 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 (LORD), 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:151
# text = Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
1	Curd	curd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knoweth	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **eat** | shall | LORD | Curd and honey |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curd=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | present | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **refuse** | to-infinitive | LORD *not said here* | the evil |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |
| 4 | **choose** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* | the good |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=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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חֶמְאָ֥ה וּדְבַ֖שׁ יֹאכֵ֑ל לְדַעְתּ֛וֹ מָא֥וֹס בָּרָ֖ע וּבָח֥וֹר בַּטּֽוֹב׃

[Isaiah 7:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.15/)

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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:151` 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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