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title: Isaiah 36:6 (JPS 1917) — Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him. Who acts: thou, man, reed, Pharaoh. Isaiah 36:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Isaiah 36:6 · JPS 1917

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Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him.

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**Who acts:** thou, man, reed, Pharaoh · **What happens:** trust, bruise, lean, go, pierce, be · **To what, where:** hand, reed, king

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This is Isaiah 36:6 · 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 (thou, man, reed, Pharaoh), 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:742
# text = Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	trustest	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	bruised	bruise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
17	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lean	lean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	obl	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | upon the staff of this bruised reed; upon Egypt | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bruise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lean** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a man |  |  |  |  | whereon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | future | reed |  |  | man's hand |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **pierce** | infinitive | reed *not said here* | reed |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | present | Pharaoh | king |  |  |  | of Egypt; to all | tree rules |
| 7 | **trust** | present |  |  |  |  |  | on man | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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הִנֵּ֣ה בָטַ֡חְתָּ עַל־מִשְׁעֶנֶת֩ הַקָּנֶ֨ה הָרָצ֤וּץ הַזֶּה֙ עַל־מִצְרַ֔יִם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִסָּמֵ֥ךְ אִישׁ֙ עָלָ֔יו וּבָ֥א בְכַפּ֖וֹ וּנְקָבָ֑הּ כֵּ֚ן פַּרְעֹ֣ה מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֔יִם לְכָֽל־הַבֹּטְחִ֖ים עָלָֽיו׃

[Isaiah 36:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.6/)

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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:742` of Mova's parse database.

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