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title: Isaiah 14:6 (JPS 1917) — That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled… · tree and pragmatics
description: That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained. Who acts: That, incessant stroke, none. Isaiah 14:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 14:6 · JPS 1917

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That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

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**Who acts:** That, incessant stroke, none · **What happens:** smite, rule, restrain · **To what, where:** peoples, wrath, nations, anger, persecution

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This is Isaiah 14:6 · 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 (That, incessant stroke, none), 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:304
# text = That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	incessant	incessant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
24	restrained	restrain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | past | That | the peoples |  | wrath |  | with a incessant stroke | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent people=Patient with stroke=Instrument |
| 2 | **rule** | past | a incessant stroke | the nations |  | anger |  | with a persecution | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Theme |
| 3 | **restrain** | past | none | a persecution |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer that=Eventuality |

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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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מַכֶּ֤ה עַמִּים֙ בְּעֶבְרָ֔ה מַכַּ֖ת בִּלְתִּ֣י סָרָ֑ה רֹדֶ֤ה בָאַף֙ גּוֹיִ֔ם מֻרְדָּ֖ף בְּלִ֥י חָשָֽׂךְ׃

[Isaiah 14:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.6/)

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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:304` 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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