--- title: Isaiah 37:36 (JPS 1917) — And the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the A… · tree and pragmatics description: And the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. Who acts: angel, men. 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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 (angel, men), 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:799 # text = And the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 angel angel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 forth forth ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 smote smote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Assyrians Assyrian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 fourscore fourscore NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 compound _ _ 24 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 27 when when SCONJ WRB _ 29 mark _ _ 28 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 30 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 35 behold behold INTJ UH _ 41 discourse _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 all all ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 corpses corpse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the angel of the LORD | | | | | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **smote** | past | the angel of the LORD *not said here* | a hundred | | the camp of the Assyrians | | | tree rules | | 3 | **arise** | past | men | | | | morning | early *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | past | men *= man* | dead corpses | | | | all *property* | tree rules | 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} וַיֵּצֵ֣א ׀ מַלְאַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֗ה וַיַּכֶּה֙ בְּמַחֲנֵ֣ה אַשּׁ֔וּר מֵאָ֛ה וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה אָ֑לֶף וַיַּשְׁכִּ֣ימוּ בַבֹּ֔קֶר וְהִנֵּ֥ה כֻלָּ֖ם פְּגָרִ֥ים מֵתִֽים׃ [Isaiah 37:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.36/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:799` 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 37:35 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.798/) - next →: [Isaiah 37:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.800/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 37:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.36/)