--- title: Isaiah 19:3 (JPS 1917) — And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty within it; and I will ma… · tree and pragmatics description: And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty within it; and I will make void the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the whisperers, and to the ghosts, and to the familiar spirits. Who acts: I, idols. 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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, idols), 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:386 # text = And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty within it; and I will make void the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the whisperers, and to the ghosts, and to the familiar spirits. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 within within ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 void void ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 26 unto unto ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 idols idol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 whisperers whisperer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ghosts ghost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 familiar familiar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | shall · passive | | the spirit of Egypt | | | | within kingdom; empty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **make** | future | I | | | | | void *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seek** | shall | idols *= idol* | | | | | unto the idols and the whisperers and the ghosts and the familiar spirits | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} וְנָבְקָ֤ה רֽוּחַ־מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ בְּקִרְבּ֔וֹ וַעֲצָת֖וֹ אֲבַלֵּ֑עַ וְדָרְשׁ֤וּ אֶל־הָֽאֱלִילִים֙ וְאֶל־הָ֣אִטִּ֔ים וְאֶל־הָאֹב֖וֹת וְאֶל־הַיִּדְּעֹנִֽים׃ [Isaiah 19:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:386` 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 19:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.385/) - next →: [Isaiah 19:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.387/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 19:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.3/)