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title: Isaiah 32:6 (JPS 1917) — For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work ini… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. Who acts: vile person, heart. Isaiah 32:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency
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# Isaiah 32:6 · JPS 1917

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For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

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**Who acts:** vile person, heart · **What happens:** speak, work, practise, utter, make, cause · **To what, where:** villainy, iniquity, ungodliness, wickedness, drink · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 32:6 · 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 (vile person, heart), 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:666
# text = For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	villainy	villainy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	practise	practise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	ungodliness	ungodliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
30	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hungry	hungry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	thirsty	thirsty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	acl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | the vile person | villainy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | future | person's heart | iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent iniquity=Material |
| 3 | **practise** | to-infinitive | person's heart *not said here* | ungodliness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **utter** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | person's heart *not said here* | wickedness |  |  |  | against the LORD | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wickedness=Topic |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | person's heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **cause** | to-infinitive | person's heart *not said here* | the drink of the thirsty |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition drink=Patient |
| 7 | **fail** | to-infinitive | person's heart *not said here* | the drink of the thirsty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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כִּ֤י נָבָל֙ נְבָלָ֣ה יְדַבֵּ֔ר וְלִבּ֖וֹ יַעֲשֶׂה־אָ֑וֶן לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת חֹ֗נֶף וּלְדַבֵּ֤ר אֶל־יְהוָה֙ תּוֹעָ֔ה לְהָרִיק֙ נֶ֣פֶשׁ רָעֵ֔ב וּמַשְׁקֶ֥ה צָמֵ֖א יַחְסִֽיר׃

[Isaiah 32:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.6/)

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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:666` 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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