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title: Isaiah 3:15 (JPS 1917) — What mean ye that ye crush My people, and grind the face of the poor… · tree and pragmatics
description: What mean ye that ye crush My people, and grind the face of the poor?' saith the Lord, the GOD of hosts. Who acts: ye, Lord. Isaiah 3:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 3:15 · JPS 1917

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What mean ye that ye crush My people, and grind the face of the poor?' saith the Lord, the GOD of hosts.

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**Who acts:** ye, Lord · **What happens:** mean, crush, grind, say · **To what, where:** people, face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 3:15 · 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 (ye, Lord), 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:71
# text = What mean ye that ye crush My people, and grind the face of the poor?' saith the Lord, the GOD of hosts.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obj	_	_
2	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	crush	crush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	grind	grind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
19	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **crush** | present | ye | My people |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 3 | **grind** | present | ye *not said here* | the face of the poor |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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מַה־לָּכֶם֙תְּדַכְּא֣וּ עַמִּ֔י וּפְנֵ֥י עֲנִיִּ֖ים תִּטְחָ֑נוּ נְאֻם־אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִ֖ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃ס

[Isaiah 3:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.15/)

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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:71` 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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