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title: Isaiah 27:7 (JPS 1917) — Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by… · tree and pragmatics
description: Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by Him? Who acts: face. Isaiah 27:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 27:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by Him?

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**Who acts:** face · **What happens:** slay, slaughter · **To what, where:** face, slaughter, thorns

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This is Isaiah 27:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (face), 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:552
# text = Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by Him?
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	according	according	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl:agent	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **slay** | present · passive |  | face |  |  |  | according the slaughter of thorns | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **slay** | past · passive | face | the slaughter of thorns |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **slaughter** |  |  | thorns *= thorn* |  |  |  |  | nom slaughter «act 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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הַכְּמַכַּ֥ת מַכֵּ֖הוּ הִכָּ֑הוּ אִם־כְּהֶ֥רֶג הֲרֻגָ֖יו הֹרָֽג׃

[Isaiah 27:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Hath He smitten him as He smote those that smote him?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.551/)
2. **Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by Him?**

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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:552` 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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