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title: Isaiah 14:32 (JPS 1917) — What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? · tree and pragmatics
description: What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? Who acts: one. Isaiah 14:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 14:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation?

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** answer · **To what, where:** messengers

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This is Isaiah 14:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (one), 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:333
# text = What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	one	one	PRON	CD	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | shall | one | the messengers of the nation |  |  | then |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent what=Theme messenger=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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וּמַֽה־יַּעֲנֶ֖ה מַלְאֲכֵי־ג֑וֹי כִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ יִסַּ֣ד צִיּ֔וֹן וּבָ֥הּ יֶחֱס֖וּ עֲנִיֵּ֥י עַמּֽוֹ׃ס

[Isaiah 14:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.32/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation?**
2. [That the LORD hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of His people take refuge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.334/)

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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:333` 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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