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title: Isaiah 22:2 (JPS 1917) — Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. Isaiah 22:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 22:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

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**What happens:** not slay · **To what, where:** slain

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This is Isaiah 22:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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: 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:444
# text = Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **slay** | present · passive |  | Thy slain |  |  |  | with the sword | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sword=Instrument |

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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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תְּשֻׁא֣וֹת ׀ מְלֵאָ֗ה עִ֚יר הֽוֹמִיָּ֔ה קִרְיָ֖ה עַלִּיזָ֑ה חֲלָלַ֙יִךְ֙ לֹ֣א חַלְלֵי־חֶ֔רֶב וְלֹ֖א מֵתֵ֥י מִלְחָמָֽה׃

[Isaiah 22:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Thou that art full of uproar, a tumultuous city, a joyous town?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.443/)
2. **Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.**

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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:444` 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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