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title: Isaiah 30:6 (JPS 1917) — Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the liones… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. Who acts: lioness, people. Isaiah 30:6 in
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# Isaiah 30:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

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**Who acts:** lioness, people · **What happens:** come, carry, not profit, treasure · **To what, where:** riches, people, land, lioness

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This is Isaiah 30:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (lioness, 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:624
# text = Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	obl	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lioness	lioness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	viper	viper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	flying	flying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	humps	hump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
48	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	profit	profit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the lioness and the lion and the viper and flying serpent |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from whence=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **carry** | present | lioness | lioness's riches and lioness's treasures upon the humps of camels | a people | the land of trouble and anguish |  | upon the shoulders of young asses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rich=Theme to people=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **profit** | shall | a people | lioness |  |  |  |  | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **treasure** |  | lioness |  |  |  |  | upon the humps of camels | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent upon=obl |

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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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מַשָּׂ֖א בַּהֲמ֣וֹת נֶ֑גֶב בְּאֶרֶץ֩ צָרָ֨ה וְצוּקָ֜ה לָבִ֧יא וָלַ֣יִשׁ מֵהֶ֗ם אֶפְעֶה֙ וְשָׂרָ֣ף מְעוֹפֵ֔ף יִשְׂאוּ֩ עַל־כֶּ֨תֶף עֲיָרִ֜ים חֵֽילֵהֶ֗ם וְעַל־דַּבֶּ֤שֶׁת גְּמַלִּים֙ אֽוֹצְרֹתָ֔ם עַל־עַ֖ם לֹ֥א יוֹעִֽילוּ׃

[Isaiah 30:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.6/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [The burden of the beasts of the South.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.623/)
2. **Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.**

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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:624` 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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