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title: Isaiah 13:4 (JPS 1917) — Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! · tree and pragmatics
description: Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! 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 2 of 3

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Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together!

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**What happens:** gather · **To what, where:** uproar

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This is Isaiah 13:4 · 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: 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:279
# text = Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together!
1	Hark	hark	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | participle |  | the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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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!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.278/)
2. **Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together!**
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:279` 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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