---
title: Isaiah 31:2 (JPS 1917) — Yet He also is wise, and bringeth evil, and doth not call back His w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet He also is wise, and bringeth evil, and doth not call back His words; but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. Who acts: Woe, help. Isaiah 31:2 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.653/)

<!-- 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/31/) / [31:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.31.2/) / JPS 1

# Isaiah 31:2 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yet He also is wise, and bringeth evil, and doth not call back His words; but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Woe, help · **What happens:** be, bring, not call back, arise, work, word · **To what, where:** evil, words, house, iniquity, doers

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Isaiah 31:2 · 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 (Woe, help), 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:653
# text = Yet He also is wise, and bringeth evil, and doth not call back His words; but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bringeth	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	doers	doer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Woe |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present | Woe *not said here* | evil |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **call back** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Woe *not said here* | Woe's words |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient |
| 4 | **arise** | future | Woe *not said here* |  |  | the house of the evil doers and the help of doers |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against house=Location |
| 5 | **work** | present | the help of doers | iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent iniquity=Material |
| 6 | **word** |  | Woe |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **help** |  |  | doers *= doer* |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .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 -->
וְגַם־ה֤וּא חָכָם֙ וַיָּ֣בֵא רָ֔ע וְאֶת־דְּבָרָ֖יו לֹ֣א הֵסִ֑יר וְקָם֙ עַל־בֵּ֣ית מְרֵעִ֔ים וְעַל־עֶזְרַ֖ת פֹּ֥עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

[Isaiah 31:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.31.2/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:653` 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 31:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.652/)
- next →: [Isaiah 31:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.654/)
- ↑ back to [Isaiah 31:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.31.2/)