--- title: Isaiah 36:21 (JPS 1917) — But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king… · tree and pragmatics description: But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying: 'Answer him not.' Who acts: Hamath, commandment, king. 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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 (Hamath, commandment, king), 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:759 # text = But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying: 'Answer him not.' 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Answer answer VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | Hamath | Hamath's peace | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | | 2 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Hamath *not said here* | a word | God | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme word=Eventuality | | 3 | **be** | past | the king's commandment | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the king's commandment *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | God | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 6 | **pacify** | | Hamath | | | | | | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **command** | | the king | | | | | | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=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} וַֽיַּחֲרִ֔ישׁוּ וְלֹֽא־עָנ֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ דָּבָ֑ר כִּֽי־מִצְוַ֨ת הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ הִ֛יא לֵאמֹ֖ר לֹ֥א תַעֲנֻֽהוּ׃ [Isaiah 36:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:759` 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 36:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.758/) - next →: [Isaiah 36:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.760/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 36:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.21/)