--- title: Isaiah 7:25 (JPS 1917) — And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not… · tree and pragmatics description: And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep. Who acts: thou, land. 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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 (thou, land), 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:161 # text = And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 dislocated _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 digged digg VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mattock mattock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 13 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 thither thither ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 briers brier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sending send NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 31 forth forth ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 treading treading NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **digg** | past · passive | | all hills | | | | with the mattock | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **come** | shall | thou | | | | | for fear of briers and thorns; all hills *dislocated*; thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | shall | land | | | | | for the sending and the treading of sheep; of oxen; forth *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fear** | | | briers and thorns | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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} וְכֹ֣ל הֶהָרִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר בַּמַּעְדֵּר֙ יֵעָ֣דֵר֔וּן לֹֽא־תָב֣וֹא שָׁ֔מָּה יִרְאַ֖ת שָׁמִ֣יר וָשָׁ֑יִת וְהָיָה֙ לְמִשְׁלַ֣ח שׁ֔וֹר וּלְמִרְמַ֖ס שֶֽׂה׃פ [Isaiah 7:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.25/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:161` 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 7:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.160/) - next →: [Isaiah 8:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.162/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 7:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.25/)