--- title: Isaiah 19:17 (JPS 1917) — And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt, whensoever o… · tree and pragmatics description: And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt, whensoever one maketh mention thereof to it; it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of the LORD of hosts, which He purposeth against it. Who acts: land, one, Egypt, LORD. 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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 (land, one, Egypt, LORD), 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:401 # text = And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt, whensoever one maketh mention thereof to it; it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of the LORD of hosts, which He purposeth against it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 10 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 whensoever whensoever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 14 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 15 maketh make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 16 mention mention NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 29 case _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obj _ _ 37 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 purposeth purpose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 39 against against ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | shall | the land of Judah | a terror unto Egypt | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | one | mention | land | | | thereof, whensoever *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mention=Product | | 3 | **is** | shall | land | | | | | because the purpose of the LORD of hosts; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **purpose** *speech: other* | present | Egypt | the LORD of hosts | | | | against land | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic | | 5 | **purpose** | | the LORD of hosts | | | | | | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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} וְ֠הָיְתָה אַדְמַ֨ת יְהוּדָ֤ה לְמִצְרַ֙יִם֙ לְחָגָּ֔א כֹּל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יַזְכִּ֥יר אֹתָ֛הּ אֵלָ֖יו יִפְחָ֑ד מִפְּנֵ֗י עֲצַת֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת אֲשֶׁר־ה֖וּא יוֹעֵ֥ץ עָלָֽיו׃ס [Isaiah 19:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:401` 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 19:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.400/) - next →: [Isaiah 19:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.402/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 19:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.17/)