--- title: Isaiah 28:22 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bands be made strong; fo… · tree and pragmatics description: Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bands be made strong; for an extermination wholly determined have I heard from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, upon the whole land. Who acts: ye, I. 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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, 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:582 # text = Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bands be made strong; for an extermination wholly determined have I heard from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, upon the whole land. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 3 be be AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nsubj _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 scoffers scoffer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 13 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 extermination extermination NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 18 wholly wholly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 determined determine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 20 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: warn - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | infinitive | ye | scoffers | | | now | therefore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | infinitive · passive | | your bands | | | | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **determine** | participle | | a extermination *not said here* | | | | upon the whole land; wholly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hear** | present · perfect | I | a extermination | | | | from the Lord | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent extermination=Topic from lord=Source | 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} וְעַתָּה֙ אַל־תִּתְלוֹצָ֔צוּ פֶּֽן־יֶחְזְק֖וּ מֽוֹסְרֵיכֶ֑ם כִּֽי־כָלָ֨ה וְנֶחֱרָצָ֜ה שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי מֵאֵ֨ת אֲדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה צְבָא֖וֹת עַל־כָּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ [Isaiah 28:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:582` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 28:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.581/) - next →: [Isaiah 28:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.583/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 28:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.22/)