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title: Isaiah 27:4 (JPS 1917) — Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in fla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame! Who acts: Fury, I. Isaiah 27:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 27:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame!

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**Who acts:** Fury, I · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** flame

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This is Isaiah 27:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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: who acts (Fury, I), 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:547
# text = Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame!
1	Fury	Fury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	briers	brier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=excl, act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Fury |  |  |  |  | in Me | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would | I |  |  | flame |  | as the briers and thorns | 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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חֵמָ֖ה אֵ֣ין לִ֑י מִֽי־יִתְּנֵ֜נִי שָׁמִ֥יר שַׁ֙יִת֙ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה אֶפְשְׂעָ֥ה בָ֖הּ אֲצִיתֶ֥נָּה יָּֽחַד׃

[Isaiah 27:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame!**
2. [I would with one step burn it altogether.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.548/)

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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:547` 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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