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title: Isaiah 30:5 (JPS 1917) — They shall all be ashamed of a people that cannot profit them, that… · tree and pragmatics
description: They shall all be ashamed of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. Who acts: ambassadors, people. Isaiah 30:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 30:5 · JPS 1917

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They shall all be ashamed of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

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**Who acts:** ambassadors, people · **What happens:** be, not profit, not be · **To what, where:** ambassadors, help

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This is Isaiah 30:5 · 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 (ambassadors, people), 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:622
# text = They shall all be ashamed of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	_	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	profit	profit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl:relcl	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
21	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	reproach	reproach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is** | shall | ambassadors *= ambassador* |  |  |  |  | of a people; all, ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **profit** | can | a people | ambassadors *= ambassador* |  |  |  |  | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | a people | a help nor profit but a shame and a reproach |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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כֹּ֣ל הֹבִ֔ישׁ עַל־עַ֖ם לֹא־יוֹעִ֣ילוּ לָ֑מוֹ לֹ֤א לְעֵ֙זֶר֙ וְלֹ֣א לְהוֹעִ֔יל כִּ֥י לְבֹ֖שֶׁת וְגַם־לְחֶרְפָּֽה׃ס

[Isaiah 30:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.5/)

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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:622` 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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