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title: Isaiah 13:4 (JPS 1917) — Hark, a tumult in the mountains, like as of a great people! · tree and pragmatics
description: Hark, a tumult in the mountains, like as of a great people! Isaiah 13:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 13:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Hark, a tumult in the mountains, like as of a great people!

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This is Isaiah 13:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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: 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:278
# text = Hark, a tumult in the mountains, like as of a great people!
1	Hark	hark	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	9	fixed	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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ק֥וֹל הָמ֛וֹן בֶּֽהָרִ֖ים דְּמ֣וּת עַם־רָ֑ב ק֠וֹל שְׁא֞וֹן מַמְלְכ֤וֹת גּוֹיִם֙ נֶֽאֱסָפִ֔ים יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת מְפַקֵּ֖ד צְבָ֥א מִלְחָמָֽה׃

[Isaiah 13:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Hark, a tumult in the mountains, like as of a great people!**
2. [Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.279/)
3. [The LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.280/)

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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:278` 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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