---
title: Isaiah 30:7 (JPS 1917) — For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I calle… · tree and pragmatics
description: For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her arrogancy that sitteth still. Who acts: Egypt, I, arrogancy. Isaiah 30:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.625/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/) / [chapter 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/30/) / [30:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.7/) / JPS 1

# Isaiah 30:7 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her arrogancy that sitteth still.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Egypt, I, arrogancy · **What happens:** help, call, sit · **To what, where:** vain, arrogancy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Isaiah 30:7 · 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 (Egypt, I, arrogancy), 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:625
# text = For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her arrogancy that sitteth still.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	helpeth	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	vain	vain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	arrogancy	arrogancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sitteth	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Egypt |  |  | vain |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present · perfect | I | Egypt's arrogancy |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent arrogancy=Recipient |
| 3 | **sit** | present | Egypt's arrogancy |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וּמִצְרַ֕יִם הֶ֥בֶל וָרִ֖יק יַעְזֹ֑רוּ לָכֵן֙ קָרָ֣אתִי לָזֹ֔את רַ֥הַב הֵ֖ם שָֽׁבֶת׃

[Isaiah 30:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.7/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:625` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Isaiah 30:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.624/)
- next →: [Isaiah 30:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.626/)
- ↑ back to [Isaiah 30:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.7/)