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title: Isaiah 30:2 (JPS 1917) — That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at My mouth; to… · tree and pragmatics
description: That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at My mouth; to take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh, and to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt! Who acts: That. Isaiah 30:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 30:2 · JPS 1917

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That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at My mouth; to take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh, and to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** walk, go down, not ask, take, shadow · **To what, where:** Egypt, mouth, refuge, stronghold, shelter, shadow

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This is Isaiah 30:2 · 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), 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:619
# text = That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at My mouth; to take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh, and to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
1	That	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
29	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | That |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go down** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Egypt |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present · perfect | That *not said here* |  |  | My mouth |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | That *not said here* | refuge |  | the stronghold of Pharaoh |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in stronghold=Location |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | That *not said here* | shelter |  | the shadow of Egypt |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in shadow=Location |
| 6 | **shadow** |  |  | Egypt |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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הַהֹלְכִים֙ לָרֶ֣דֶת מִצְרַ֔יִם וּפִ֖י לֹ֣א שָׁאָ֑לוּ לָעוֹז֙ בְּמָע֣וֹז פַּרְעֹ֔ה וְלַחְס֖וֹת בְּצֵ֥ל מִצְרָֽיִם׃

[Isaiah 30:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.2/)

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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:619` 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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