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title: Isaiah 3:9 (JPS 1917) — Woe unto their soul! for they have wrought evil unto themselves. · tree and pragmatics
description: Woe unto their soul! for they have wrought evil unto themselves. Who acts: people. Isaiah 3:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 3:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Woe unto their soul! for they have wrought evil unto themselves.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** wrought · **To what, where:** evil

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This is Isaiah 3:9 · 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 (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:64
# text = Woe unto their soul! for they have wrought evil unto themselves.
1	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
10	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=express, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrought** | present · perfect | people | evil |  |  |  | unto people | 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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הַכָּרַ֤ת פְּנֵיהֶם֙ עָ֣נְתָה בָּ֔ם וְחַטָּאתָ֛ם כִּסְדֹ֥ם הִגִּ֖ידוּ לֹ֣א כִחֵ֑דוּ א֣וֹי לְנַפְשָׁ֔ם כִּֽי־גָמְל֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם רָעָֽה׃

[Isaiah 3:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.63/)
2. **Woe unto their soul! for they have wrought evil unto themselves.**

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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:64` 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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