---
title: Isaiah 4:1 (JPS 1917) — And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying: 'We… · tree and pragmatics
description: And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying: 'We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.' Who acts: seven women, We, name, thou. Isaiah 4:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.83/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/4/) / [4:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.4.1/) / JPS 1

# Isaiah 4:1 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying: 'We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.'

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** seven women, We, name, thou, thy · **What happens:** take hold, say, eat, wear, let, call · **To what, where:** own bread, own apparel, us, reproach · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Isaiah 4:1 · 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 (seven women, We, name, thou), 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:83
# text = And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying: 'We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	hold	hold	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
17	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	apparel	apparel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
32	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
39	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
40	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nsubj	_	_
41	away	away	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	reproach	reproach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take hold** | shall | seven women |  |  |  | day | of one man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of man=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | seven women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **eat** | future | We | our own bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 4 | **wear** | infinitive | We *not said here* | our own apparel |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent apparel=Source |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **call** | infinitive · passive | thy name |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **take away** | infinitive | thou | our reproach |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reproach=Theme |
| 8 | **name** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וְהֶחֱזִיקוּ֩ שֶׁ֨בַע נָשִׁ֜ים בְּאִ֣ישׁ אֶחָ֗ד בַּיּ֤וֹם הַהוּא֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לַחְמֵ֣נוּ נֹאכֵ֔ל וְשִׂמְלָתֵ֖נוּ נִלְבָּ֑שׁ רַ֗ק יִקָּרֵ֤א שִׁמְךָ֙ עָלֵ֔ינוּ אֱסֹ֖ף חֶרְפָּתֵֽנוּ׃ס

[Isaiah 4:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.4.1/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:83` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Isaiah 3:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.82/)
- next →: [Isaiah 4:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.84/)
- ↑ back to [Isaiah 4:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.4.1/)