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title: Isaiah 10:6 (JPS 1917) — I do send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of M… · tree and pragmatics
description: I do send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath do I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Who acts: I. Isaiah 10:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 10:6 · JPS 1917

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I do send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath do I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** send, give, take, tread down · **To what, where:** hand, charge, spoil, prey, people

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This is Isaiah 10:6 · 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 (I), 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:219
# text = I do send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath do I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ungodly	ungodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	mire	mire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **send** | present · do-support | I | hand |  |  |  | against a ungodly nation | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present · do-support | I | a charge | hand |  |  | against the people of My wrath | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient charge=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the spoil |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the prey |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme |
| 5 | **tread down** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | people |  |  |  | like the mire of the streets | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=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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בְּג֤וֹי חָנֵף֙ אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֔נּוּ וְעַל־עַ֥ם עֶבְרָתִ֖י אֲצַוֶּ֑נּוּ לִשְׁלֹ֤ל שָׁלָל֙ וְלָבֹ֣ז בַּ֔ז וּלְשׂוּמ֥וֹ מִרְמָ֖ס כְּחֹ֥מֶר חוּצֽוֹת׃

[Isaiah 10:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.6/)

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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:219` 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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