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title: Isaiah 8:4 (JPS 1917) — For before the child shall have knowledge to cry: My father, and: My… · tree and pragmatics
description: For before the child shall have knowledge to cry: My father, and: My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.' Who acts: child. Isaiah 8:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 8:4 · JPS 1917

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For before the child shall have knowledge to cry: My father, and: My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.'

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** have, cry, carry away, spoil · **To what, where:** knowledge, father, riches, Samaria

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This is Isaiah 8:4 · 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 (child), 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:166
# text = For before the child shall have knowledge to cry: My father, and: My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.'
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
7	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Samaria	Samaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	before	before	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Assyria	Assyria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | the child | knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* | My father |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
| 3 | **carry away** | shall · passive |  | the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria |  |  | before the king of Assyria | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **spoil** |  |  | Samaria |  |  |  |  | nom spoil «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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כִּ֗י בְּטֶ֙רֶם֙ יֵדַ֣ע הַנַּ֔עַר קְרֹ֖א אָבִ֣י וְאִמִּ֑י יִשָּׂ֣א ׀ אֶת־חֵ֣יל דַּמֶּ֗שֶׂק וְאֵת֙ שְׁלַ֣ל שֹׁמְר֔וֹן לִפְנֵ֖י מֶ֥לֶךְ אַשּֽׁוּר׃ס

[Isaiah 8:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.4/)

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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:166` 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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