--- title: Isaiah 3:6 (JPS 1917) — For a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father:… · tree and pragmatics description: For a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father: 'Thou hast a mantle, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand.' Who acts: man, Thou, ruin. 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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 (man, Thou, ruin), 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:60 # text = For a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father: 'Thou hast a mantle, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand.' 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hast have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 24 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 25 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 ruin ruin NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 33 under under ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | shall | a man | hold of base's brother of the house of base's father | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | Thou | a mantle | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | infinitive | thou | our ruler | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | this ruin | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruin=Theme | | 5 | **is** | infinitive | this ruin *not said here* | | | thy hand | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hold** | | | base's brother of the house of base's father | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} כִּֽי־יִתְפֹּ֨שׂ אִ֤ישׁ בְּאָחִיו֙ בֵּ֣ית אָבִ֔יו שִׂמְלָ֣ה לְכָ֔ה קָצִ֖ין תִּֽהְיֶה־לָּ֑נוּ וְהַמַּכְשֵׁלָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את תַּ֥חַת יָדֶֽךָ׃ [Isaiah 3:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:60` 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 3:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.59/) - next →: [Isaiah 3:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.61/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 3:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.6/)