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title: Isaiah 11:4 (JPS 1917) — But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equi… · tree and pragmatics
description: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the land; and he shall smite the land with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. Who acts: twig. Isaiah 11:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Isaiah 11:4 · JPS 1917

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But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the land; and he shall smite the land with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

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**Who acts:** twig · **What happens:** judge, decide, smite, slay · **To what, where:** poor, land, wicked

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This is Isaiah 11:4 · 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 (twig), 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:256
# text = But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the land; and he shall smite the land with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	equity	equity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	meek	meek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
41	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	43	aux	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | shall | twig | the poor |  |  |  | with righteousness | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent poor=Value |
| 2 | **decide** | infinitive | twig *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with equity; for the meek of the land | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with equity=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **smite** | shall | twig | the land |  |  |  | with the rod of twig's mouth | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent land=Patient with rod=Instrument |
| 4 | **slay** | shall | twig | the wicked |  |  |  | with the breath of twig's lips | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wicked=Patient with breath=Instrument |

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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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וְשָׁפַ֤ט בְּצֶ֙דֶק֙ דַּלִּ֔ים וְהוֹכִ֥יחַ בְּמִישׁ֖וֹר לְעַנְוֵי־אָ֑רֶץ וְהִֽכָּה־אֶ֙רֶץ֙ בְּשֵׁ֣בֶט פִּ֔יו וּבְר֥וּחַ שְׂפָתָ֖יו יָמִ֥ית רָשָֽׁע׃

[Isaiah 11:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.4/)

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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:256` 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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