--- title: Isaiah 31:9 (JPS 1917) — And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes sh… · tree and pragmatics description: And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem. Who acts: rock, LORD, fire, Zion. 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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 (rock, LORD, fire, Zion), 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:660 # text = And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 shall shall AUX MD _ 5 aux _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 dismayed dismay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ensign ensign NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Zion Zion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 acl:relcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 furnace furnace NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass away** | shall | sword's rock | | | | | by reason of terror; away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **dismay** | shall · passive | | sword's princes | | the ensign | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | Zion's fire and LORD's furnace in Jerusalem | | | Zion | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fire** | | Zion | | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְסַלְעוֹ֙ מִמָּג֣וֹר יַֽעֲב֔וֹר וְחַתּ֥וּ מִנֵּ֖ס שָׂרָ֑יו נְאֻם־יְהוָ֗ה אֲשֶׁר־א֥וּר לוֹ֙ בְּצִיּ֔וֹן וְתַנּ֥וּר ל֖וֹ בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס [Isaiah 31:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.31.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:660` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 31:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.659/) - next →: [Isaiah 32:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.661/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 31:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.31.9/)