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title: Isaiah 2:22 (JPS 1917) — Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is he to be accounted! Who acts: ye, breath. Isaiah 2:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 2:22 · JPS 1917

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Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is he to be accounted!

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**Who acts:** ye, breath · **What happens:** cease, be, account · **To what, where:** nostrils, man

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This is Isaiah 2:22 · 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 (ye, breath), 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:54
# text = Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is he to be accounted!
1	Cease	cease	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	accounted	account	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **cease** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | from man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | a breath |  |  | man's nostrils |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **account** | present · passive |  | man |  |  |  | little *property* | tree rules |

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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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חִדְל֤וּ לָכֶם֙ מִן־הָ֣אָדָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר נְשָׁמָ֖ה בְּאַפּ֑וֹ כִּֽי־בַמֶּ֥ה נֶחְשָׁ֖ב הֽוּא׃פ

[Isaiah 2:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.22/)

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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:54` 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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