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title: Isaiah 27:1 (JPS 1917) — In that day the LORD with His sore and great and strong sword will p… · tree and pragmatics
description: In that day the LORD with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea. Who acts: LORD, dragon. Isaiah 27:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 27:1 · JPS 1917

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In that day the LORD with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

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**Who acts:** LORD, dragon · **What happens:** punish, slay, be · **To what, where:** leviathan, dragon, sea

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This is Isaiah 27:1 · 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, dragon), 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:544
# text = In that day the LORD with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	His	he	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	leviathan	leviathan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	slant	slant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	leviathan	leviathan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	tortuous	tortuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **punish** | future | the LORD | leviathan |  |  | day | with LORD's sore sword | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent leviathan=Patient with sword=Theme |
| 2 | **slay** | future | LORD | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the dragon |  |  | the sea |  |  | 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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בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֡וּא יִפְקֹ֣ד יְהוָה֩ בְּחַרְב֨וֹהַקָּשָׁ֜ה וְהַגְּדוֹלָ֣ה וְהַֽחֲזָקָ֗ה עַ֤ל לִוְיָתָן֙ נָחָ֣שׁ בָּרִ֔חַ וְעַל֙ לִוְיָתָ֔ן נָחָ֖שׁ עֲקַלָּת֑וֹן וְהָרַ֥ג אֶת־הַתַּנִּ֖ין אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּיָּֽם׃ס

[Isaiah 27:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.1/)

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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:544` 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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