--- title: Isaiah 24:6 (JPS 1917) — Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell there… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth waste away, and men are left few. Who acts: curse, inhabitants. 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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 (curse, inhabitants), 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:492 # text = Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth waste away, and men are left few. 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 curse curse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 devoured devour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 dwell dwell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 therein therein ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 16 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 18 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 waste waste VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 31 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **devour** | present · perfect | a curse | the earth | | | | therefore *property* | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient | | 2 | **dwell** | present | | | | | | therein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | present · passive | | people | | | | guilty *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **waste away** | present | the inhabitants of the earth | | | | | away, therefore *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **leave** | present · passive | | men | | | | few *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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} עַל־כֵּ֗ן אָלָה֙ אָ֣כְלָה אֶ֔רֶץ וַֽיֶּאְשְׁמ֖וּ יֹ֣שְׁבֵי בָ֑הּ עַל־כֵּ֗ן חָרוּ֙ יֹ֣שְׁבֵי אֶ֔רֶץ וְנִשְׁאַ֥ר אֱנ֖וֹשׁ מִזְעָֽר׃ [Isaiah 24:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:492` 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 24:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.491/) - next →: [Isaiah 24:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.493/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 24:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.6/)