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title: Isaiah 13:19 (JPS 1917) — And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pri… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. Who acts: God, kingdoms, Chaldeans. Isaiah 13:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 13:19 · JPS 1917

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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

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**Who acts:** God, kingdoms, Chaldeans · **What happens:** overthrow, glory, pride · **To what, where:** Sodom

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This is Isaiah 13:19 · 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 (God, kingdoms, Chaldeans), 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:295
# text = And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Chaldeans	chaldean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	Sodom	Sodom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Gomorrah	Gomorrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overthrow** | past | God | Sodom and Gomorrah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **glory** |  | kingdoms |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **pride** |  | the Chaldeans |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling 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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וְהָיְתָ֤ה בָבֶל֙ צְבִ֣י מַמְלָכ֔וֹת תִּפְאֶ֖רֶת גְּא֣וֹן כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֣ת אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־סְדֹ֖ם וְאֶת־עֲמֹרָֽה׃

[Isaiah 13:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.19/)

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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:295` 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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