--- title: Isaiah 1:20 (JPS 1917) — But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for… · tree and pragmatics description: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken. Who acts: ye, mouth. 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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 (ye, mouth), 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:20 # text = But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 refuse refuse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 rebel rebel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 devoured devour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=warn, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ye | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **rebel** | present | ye *not said here* | | | | | | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **devour** | shall · passive | | ye | | | | with the sword | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the mouth of the LORD | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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} וְאִם־תְּמָאֲנ֖וּ וּמְרִיתֶ֑ם חֶ֣רֶב תְּאֻכְּל֔וּ כִּ֛י פִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבֵּֽר׃ס [Isaiah 1:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:20` 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 1:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.19/) - next →: [Isaiah 1:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.21/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 1:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.20/)