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title: Isaiah 41:7 (JPS 1917) — So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth wit… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil, saying of the soldering: 'It is good'; and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. Who acts: carpenter, goldsmith. Isaiah 41:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Isaiah 41:7 · JPS 1917

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So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil, saying of the soldering: 'It is good'; and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

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**Who acts:** carpenter, goldsmith · **What happens:** encourage, smooth, smite, say, be, fasten · **To what, where:** goldsmith, anvil, carpenter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 41:7 · 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 (carpenter, 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:882
# text = So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil, saying of the soldering: 'It is good'; and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	smootheth	smooth	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	orphan	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	smiteth	smite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	soldering	soldering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
27	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encourage** | past | the carpenter | the goldsmith |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldsmith=Theme |
| 2 | **smooth** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with the hammer | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hammer=Instrument |
| 3 | **smite** | present |  | the anvil |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anvil=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the carpenter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the soldering | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | carpenter |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fasten** | past | goldsmith | carpenter |  |  |  | with nails | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with nail=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **not** **move** | should · passive |  | carpenter |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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וַיְחַזֵּ֤ק חָרָשׁ֙ אֶת־צֹרֵ֔ף מַחֲלִ֥יק פַּטִּ֖ישׁ אֶת־ה֣וֹלֶם פָּ֑עַם אֹמֵ֤ר לַדֶּ֙בֶק֙ ט֣וֹב ה֔וּא וַיְחַזְּקֵ֥הוּ בְמַסְמְרִ֖ים לֹ֥א יִמּֽוֹט׃ס

[Isaiah 41:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.7/)

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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:882` 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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