--- title: Isaiah 13:7 (JPS 1917) — Therefore shall all hands be slack, and every heart of man shall melt. · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore shall all hands be slack, and every heart of man shall melt. Who acts: hands, heart. Isaiah 13:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.283/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/) / [chapter 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/13/) / [13:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.7/) / JPS 1 # Isaiah 13:7 · JPS 1917 Therefore shall all hands be slack, and every heart of man shall melt. **Who acts:** hands, heart · **What happens:** be, melt This is Isaiah 13:7 · 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 (hands, heart), 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:283 # text = Therefore shall all hands be slack, and every heart of man shall melt. 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 slack slack ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 melt melt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | shall | all hands | | | | | slack, therefore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **melt** | shall | every heart of man | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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} עַל־כֵּ֖ן כָּל־יָדַ֣יִם תִּרְפֶּ֑ינָה וְכָל־לְבַ֥ב אֱנ֖וֹשׁ יִמָּס׃ [Isaiah 13:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:283` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 13:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.282/) - next →: [Isaiah 13:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.284/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 13:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.7/)