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title: Isaiah 29:20 (JPS 1917) — For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off; Who acts: scorner. Isaiah 29:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 29:20 · JPS 1917

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For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;

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**Who acts:** scorner · **What happens:** bring, cease, watch, cut off · **To what, where:** terrible one, nought, obscurity

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This is Isaiah 29:20 · 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 (scorner), 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:613
# text = For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	nought	nought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	scorner	scorner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ceaseth	cease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present · passive |  | the terrible one |  | nought |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to nought=Destination |
| 2 | **cease** | present | the scorner |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **watch** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for iniquity | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for iniquity=Theme |
| 4 | **cut off** | present · passive |  | obscurity |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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כִּֽי־אָפֵ֥ס עָרִ֖יץ וְכָ֣לָה לֵ֑ץ וְנִכְרְת֖וּ כָּל־שֹׁ֥קְדֵי אָֽוֶן׃

[Isaiah 29:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.20/)

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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:613` 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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