--- title: Isaiah 36:4 (JPS 1917) — And Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Say ye now to Hezekiah: Thus saith t… · tree and pragmatics description: And Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Say ye now to Hezekiah: Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? Who acts: Rab, ye, great king, confidence. 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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 (Rab, ye, great king, confidence), 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:739 # text = And Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Say ye now to Hezekiah: Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 Rab Rab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 shakeh shakeh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 11 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nsubj _ _ 12 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Hezekiah Hezekiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Thus thus ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Assyria Assyria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 28 det _ _ 28 confidence confidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 ccomp _ _ 31 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 32 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nsubj _ _ 33 trustest trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, form=decl, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rab | | | | | unto Eliakim | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | ye | | Hezekiah | | now | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to hezekiah=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the great king | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | what confidence | this | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **trust** | present | thou | | | | | wherein *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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} וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם֙ רַב־שָׁקֵ֔ה אִמְרוּ־נָ֖א אֶל־חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ כֹּֽה־אָמַ֞ר הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ הַגָּדוֹל֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר מָ֧ה הַבִּטָּח֛וֹן הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּטָֽחְתָּ׃ [Isaiah 36:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:739` 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 36:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.738/) - next →: [Isaiah 36:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.740/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 36:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.4/)