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title: Isaiah 42:4 (JPS 1917) — He shall not fail nor be crushed, till he have set the right in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: He shall not fail nor be crushed, till he have set the right in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his teaching. Who acts: soul, isles. Isaiah 42:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 42:4 · JPS 1917

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He shall not fail nor be crushed, till he have set the right in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his teaching.

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**Who acts:** soul, isles · **What happens:** not fail, crush, set, wait, teach · **To what, where:** right, earth

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This is Isaiah 42:4 · 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 (soul, isles), 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:910
# text = He shall not fail nor be crushed, till he have set the right in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his teaching.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fail** | shall | soul |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **crush** | infinitive · passive | soul *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
| 3 | **set** | present · perfect | soul | the right |  | the earth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent right=Theme in earth=Destination |
| 4 | **wait** | shall | the isles |  |  |  |  | for soul's teaching | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **teach** |  | soul |  |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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לֹ֤א יִכְהֶה֙ וְלֹ֣א יָר֔וּץ עַד־יָשִׂ֥ים בָּאָ֖רֶץ מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּלְתוֹרָת֖וֹ אִיִּ֥ים יְיַחֵֽילוּ׃פ

[Isaiah 42:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.4/)

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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:910` 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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