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title: Isaiah 11:15 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; an… · tree and pragmatics
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# Isaiah 11:15 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with His scorching wind will He shake His hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dry-shod.

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**Who acts:** LORD, men · **What happens:** destroy, scorch, shake, smite, cause, march · **To what, where:** tongue, hand, River, seven streams

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This is Isaiah 11:15 · 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 (LORD, men), 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:267
# text = And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with His scorching wind will He shake His hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dry-shod.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	scorching	scorch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	amod	_	_
18	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
38	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
41	over	over	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	_
44	shod	shod	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **destroy** | future | the LORD | the tongue of the Egyptian sea |  |  |  | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient |
| 2 | **scorch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **shake** | future | LORD | LORD's hand |  | the River |  | with LORD's scorching wind | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over river=Trajectory |
| 4 | **smite** | future | LORD *not said here* | hand |  |  |  | into seven streams *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into stream=Result |
| 5 | **cause** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **march** | to-infinitive | men |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **wind** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְהֶחֱרִ֣ים יְהוָ֗ה אֵ֚ת לְשׁ֣וֹן יָם־מִצְרַ֔יִם וְהֵנִ֥יף יָד֛וֹ עַל־הַנָּהָ֖ר בַּעְיָ֣ם רוּח֑וֹ וְהִכָּ֙הוּ֙ לְשִׁבְעָ֣ה נְחָלִ֔ים וְהִדְרִ֖יךְ בַּנְּעָלִֽים׃

[Isaiah 11:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.15/)

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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:267` 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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