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title: Isaiah 28:6 (JPS 1917) — And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate. Who acts: spirit, strength. Isaiah 28:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 28:6 · JPS 1917

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And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.

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**Who acts:** spirit, strength · **What happens:** sit, turn back · **To what, where:** judgment, battle, gate

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This is Isaiah 28:6 · 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 (spirit, strength), 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:564
# text = And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sitteth	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	back	back	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | a spirit of judgment to Lord and strength to spirit |  |  | judgment |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in judgment=Location |
| 2 | **turn back** | present | strength to spirit | the battle |  | the gate |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme |

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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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וּלְר֖וּחַ מִשְׁפָּ֑ט לַיּוֹשֵׁב֙ עַל־הַמִּשְׁפָּ֔ט וְלִ֨גְבוּרָ֔ה מְשִׁיבֵ֥י מִלְחָמָ֖ה שָֽׁעְרָה׃ס

[Isaiah 28:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.6/)

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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:564` 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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