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title: Isaiah 2:8 (JPS 1917) — Their land also is full of idols; every one worshippeth the work of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their land also is full of idols; every one worshippeth the work of his own hands, that which his own fingers have made. Who acts: land, one, own fingers, own hands. Isaiah 2:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 2:8 · JPS 1917

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Their land also is full of idols; every one worshippeth the work of his own hands, that which his own fingers have made.

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**Who acts:** land, one, own fingers, own hands · **What happens:** be, worship, make, work · **To what, where:** work

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This is Isaiah 2:8 · 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 (land, one, own fingers, own hands), 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:40
# text = Their land also is full of idols; every one worshippeth the work of his own hands, that which his own fingers have made.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	idols	idol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	worshippeth	worship	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	appos	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | peoples's land |  |  |  |  | of idols; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **worship** | present | every one | the work of end's own hands |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | end's own fingers |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product |
| 4 | **work** |  | end's own hands |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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וַתִּמָּלֵ֥א אַרְצ֖וֹ אֱלִילִ֑ים לְמַעֲשֵׂ֤ה יָדָיו֙ יִֽשְׁתַּחֲו֔וּ לַאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשׂ֖וּ אֶצְבְּעֹתָֽיו׃

[Isaiah 2:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.8/)

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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:40` 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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