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title: Isaiah 36:9 (JPS 1917) — How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain, even of the l… · tree and pragmatics
description: How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain, even of the least of my master's servants? yet thou puttest thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen! Who acts: thou, thy. Isaiah 36:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 36:9 · JPS 1917

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How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain, even of the least of my master's servants? yet thou puttest thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen!

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**Who acts:** thou, thy · **What happens:** turn away, put, trust · **To what, where:** face, trust, Egypt

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This is Isaiah 36:9 · 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, thy), 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:745
# text = How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain, even of the least of my master's servants? yet thou puttest thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
23	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
25	puttest	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	chariots	chariot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=assert, indirect=1, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn away** | can | thou | the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants |  |  | then |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | present | thou | thy trust |  | Egypt |  | for chariots and horsemen | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent trust=Theme on egypt=Destination |
| 3 | **trust** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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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וְאֵ֣יךְ תָּשִׁ֗יב אֵ֠ת פְּנֵ֨י פַחַ֥ת אַחַ֛ד עַבְדֵ֥י אֲדֹנִ֖י הַקְטַנִּ֑ים וַתִּבְטַ֤ח לְךָ֙ עַל־מִצְרַ֔יִם לְרֶ֖כֶב וּלְפָרָשִֽׁים׃

[Isaiah 36:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.9/)

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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:745` 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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