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title: Isaiah 23:9 (JPS 1917) — The LORD of hosts hath devised it, to pollute the pride of all glory… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD of hosts hath devised it, to pollute the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. Who acts: LORD. Isaiah 23:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 23:9 · JPS 1917

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The LORD of hosts hath devised it, to pollute the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** devise, pollute, bring, pride · **To what, where:** city, pride, honourable, contempt, glory

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This is Isaiah 23:9 · 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 (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:477
# text = The LORD of hosts hath devised it, to pollute the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	devised	devise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	pollute	pollute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	honourable	honourable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **devise** | present · perfect | the LORD of hosts | city |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **pollute** | to-infinitive | the LORD of hosts *not said here* | the pride of all glory |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the LORD of hosts *not said here* | all honourable of the earth |  | contempt |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent honourable=Theme into contempt=Destination |
| 4 | **pride** |  |  | all glory |  |  |  |  | nom pride «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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יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת יְעָצָ֑הּ לְחַלֵּל֙ גְּא֣וֹן כָּל־צְבִ֔י לְהָקֵ֖ל כָּל־נִכְבַּדֵּי־אָֽרֶץ׃

[Isaiah 23:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.9/)

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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:477` 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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