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title: Isaiah 29:21 (JPS 1917) — That make a man an offender by words, and lay a snare for him that r… · tree and pragmatics
description: That make a man an offender by words, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought. Who acts: That, snare. Isaiah 29:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 29:21 · JPS 1917

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That make a man an offender by words, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

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**Who acts:** That, snare · **What happens:** make, lay, reprove, turn · **To what, where:** man, snare, gate, just

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This is Isaiah 29:21 · 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 (That, snare), 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:614
# text = That make a man an offender by words, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.
1	That	that	PRON	WDT	Number=Sing|PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	offender	offender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	reproveth	reprove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	just	just	NOUN	JJ	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	nought	nought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | That | a man |  |  |  | by words | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | That *not said here* | a snare |  |  |  | for man | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent snare=Result for he=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **reprove** | present | a snare |  |  | the gate |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | present | That *not said here* | the just |  |  |  | with a thing of nought; aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent just=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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מַחֲטִיאֵ֤י אָדָם֙ בְּדָבָ֔ר וְלַמּוֹכִ֥יחַ בַּשַּׁ֖עַר יְקֹשׁ֑וּן וַיַּטּ֥וּ בַתֹּ֖הוּ צַדִּֽיק׃ס

[Isaiah 29:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.21/)

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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:614` 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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