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title: Isaiah 20:4 (JPS 1917) — so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. Who acts: king. Isaiah 20:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 20:4 · JPS 1917

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so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** lead away, shame · **To what, where:** captives, shame, Egypt

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This is Isaiah 20:4 · 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 (king), 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:413
# text = so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Assyria	Assyria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	exiles	exile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	barefoot	barefoot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	buttocks	buttock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
31	uncovered	uncover	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead away** | shall | the king of Assyria | the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia |  | the shame of Egypt |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent captive=Theme to shame=Destination |
| 2 | **shame** |  |  | Egypt |  |  |  |  | nom shame «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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כֵּ֣ן יִנְהַ֣ג מֶֽלֶךְ־אַ֠שּׁוּר אֶת־שְׁבִ֨י מִצְרַ֜יִם וְאֶת־גָּל֥וּת כּ֛וּשׁ נְעָרִ֥ים וּזְקֵנִ֖ים עָר֣וֹם וְיָחֵ֑ף וַחֲשׂוּפַ֥י שֵׁ֖ת עֶרְוַ֥ת מִצְרָֽיִם׃

[Isaiah 20:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.20.4/)

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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:413` 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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