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title: Isaiah 13:17 (JPS 1917) — Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. Who acts: I, Medes. Isaiah 13:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 13:17 · JPS 1917

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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

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**Who acts:** I, Medes · **What happens:** stir up, not regard, not delight · **To what, where:** Medes, silver, gold

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This is Isaiah 13:17 · 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 (I, Medes), 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:293
# text = Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Medes	Mede	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	regard	regard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir up** | future | I | the Medes |  |  |  | against Medes *= mede* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mede=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **regard** | shall | the Medes | silver |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **delight** | shall | Medes *= mede* |  |  | gold |  | as gold | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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הִנְנִ֛י מֵעִ֥יר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם אֶת־מָדָ֑י אֲשֶׁר־כֶּ֙סֶף֙ לֹ֣א יַחְשֹׁ֔בוּ וְזָהָ֖ב לֹ֥א יַחְפְּצוּ־בֽוֹ׃

[Isaiah 13:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.17/)

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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:293` 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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