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title: Isaiah 36:18 (JPS 1917) — Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying: The LORD will deliver us. · tree and pragmatics
description: Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying: The LORD will deliver us. Who acts: you, Hezekiah, LORD. Isaiah 36:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 36:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying: The LORD will deliver us.

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**Who acts:** you, Hezekiah, LORD · **What happens:** beware, persuade, say, deliver · **To what, where:** you, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 36:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (you, Hezekiah, 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:755
# text = Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying: The LORD will deliver us.
1	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **persuade** | infinitive | Hezekiah | you |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **deliver** | future | the LORD | us |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |

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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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פֶּן־יַסִּ֨ית אֶתְכֶ֤ם חִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יְהוָ֖ה יַצִּילֵ֑נוּ הַהִצִּ֜ילוּ אֱלֹהֵ֤י הַגּוֹיִם֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־אַרְצ֔וֹ מִיַּ֖ד מֶ֥לֶךְ אַשּֽׁוּר׃

[Isaiah 36:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying: The LORD will deliver us.**
2. [Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.756/)

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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:755` 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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