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title: Isaiah 10:9 (JPS 1917) — Is not Hamath as Arpad? · tree and pragmatics
description: Is not Hamath as Arpad? Who acts: Hamath. Isaiah 10:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 10:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3

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Is not Hamath as Arpad?

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**Who acts:** Hamath · **What happens:** not be

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This is Isaiah 10:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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 (Hamath), 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:223
# text = Is not Hamath as Arpad?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	Hamath	Hamath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Arpad	Arpad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **not** **is** | present | Hamath |  |  |  |  | as Arpad | tree rules |

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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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הֲלֹ֥א כְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ כַּלְנ֑וֹ אִם־לֹ֤א כְאַרְפַּד֙ חֲמָ֔ת אִם־לֹ֥א כְדַמֶּ֖שֶׂק שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃

[Isaiah 10:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Is not Calno as Carchemish?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.222/)
2. **Is not Hamath as Arpad?**
3. [Is not Samaria as Damascus?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.224/)

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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:223` 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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