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title: Isaiah 1:21 (JPS 1917) — She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now m… · tree and pragmatics
description: She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. Isaiah 1:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 1:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

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**What happens:** be, lodge · **To what, where:** mouth

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This is Isaiah 1:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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: 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:22
# text = She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	murderers	murderer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of justice and righteousness; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lodge** | participle · passive |  | mouth |  |  |  | in widow | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in she=Location |

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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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אֵיכָה֙ הָיְתָ֣ה לְזוֹנָ֔ה קִרְיָ֖ה נֶאֱמָנָ֑ה מְלֵאֲתִ֣י מִשְׁפָּ֗ט צֶ֛דֶק יָלִ֥ין בָּ֖הּ וְעַתָּ֥ה מְרַצְּחִֽים׃

[Isaiah 1:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.21/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [How is the faithful city become a harlot!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.21/)
2. **She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.**

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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:22` 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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