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title: Isaiah 40:23 (JPS 1917) — That bringeth princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth… · tree and pragmatics
description: That bringeth princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought. Who acts: goldsmith. Isaiah 40:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 40:23 · JPS 1917

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That bringeth princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.

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**Who acts:** goldsmith · **What happens:** bring, make · **To what, where:** princes, nothing, judges

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This is Isaiah 40:23 · 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 (goldsmith), 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:862
# text = That bringeth princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.
1	That	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bringeth	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	acl:relcl	_	_
3	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	maketh	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	nought	nought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present |  | princes |  | nothing |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme to nothing=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | present | goldsmith | the judges of the earth |  |  |  | as a thing of nought | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judge=Product |

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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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הַנּוֹתֵ֥ן רוֹזְנִ֖ים לְאָ֑יִן שֹׁ֥פְטֵי אֶ֖רֶץ כַּתֹּ֥הוּ עָשָֽׂה׃

[Isaiah 40:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.23/)

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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:862` 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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