--- title: Isaiah 3:14 (JPS 1917) — The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and… · tree and pragmatics description: The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and the princes thereof: 'It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses; Who acts: LORD, elder, spoil. 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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 (LORD, elder, spoil), 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:70 # text = The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and the princes thereof: 'It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses; 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 enter enter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 judgment judgment NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 elders elder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 17 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 20 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 parataxis _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 vineyard vineyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 spoil spoil NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 poor poor NOUN JJ Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | future | the LORD | | | judgment | | with the elders of Lord's people and the princes | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into judgment=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | elder | ye | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat up** | present · perfect | | the vineyard | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vineyard=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | the spoil of the poor | | | your houses | | | tree rules | | 5 | **spoil** | | | the poor | | | | | nom spoil «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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} יְהוָה֙ בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט יָב֔וֹא עִם־זִקְנֵ֥י עַמּ֖וֹ וְשָׂרָ֑יו וְאַתֶּם֙ בִּֽעַרְתֶּ֣ם הַכֶּ֔רֶם גְּזֵלַ֥ת הֶֽעָנִ֖י בְּבָתֵּיכֶֽם׃ [Isaiah 3:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:70` 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 3:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.69/) - next →: [Isaiah 3:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.71/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 3:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.14/)