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title: Isaiah 30:14 (JPS 1917) — And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in… · tree and pragmatics
description: And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern. Who acts: breaking. Isaiah 30:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and 
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# Isaiah 30:14 · JPS 1917

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And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern.

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**Who acts:** breaking · **What happens:** break, spare, not find, take · **To what, where:** iniquity, vessel, pieces, sherd, fire, hearth

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This is Isaiah 30:14 · 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 (breaking), 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:632
# text = And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	potter	potter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sparing	spare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
28	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sherd	sherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
44	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
45	out	out	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	cistern	cistern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **break** | shall | breaking | iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | present · passive |  | a potter's vessel |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **break** | gerund | breaking *not said here* | iniquity |  | pieces |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 4 | **spare** | gerund | breaking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **find** | shall · passive |  | a sherd |  | there |  | among the pieces; thereof *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 6 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | fire |  | the hearth |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from hearth=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | water |  | the cistern |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out cistern=Initial\_Location |

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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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וּ֠שְׁבָרָהּ כְּשֵׁ֨בֶר נֵ֧בֶל יוֹצְרִ֛ים כָּת֖וּת לֹ֣א יַחְמֹ֑ל וְלֹֽא־יִמָּצֵ֤א בִמְכִתָּתוֹ֙ חֶ֔רֶשׂ לַחְתּ֥וֹת אֵשׁ֙ מִיָּק֔וּד וְלַחְשֹׂ֥ף מַ֖יִם מִגֶּֽבֶא׃פ

[Isaiah 30:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.14/)

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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:632` 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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