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title: Isaiah 42:17 (JPS 1917) — They shall be turned back, greatly ashamed, that trust in graven ima… · tree and pragmatics
description: They shall be turned back, greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images: 'Ye are our gods.' Who acts: Ye. Isaiah 42:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 42:17 · JPS 1917

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They shall be turned back, greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images: 'Ye are our gods.'

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**Who acts:** Ye · **What happens:** turn back, trust, say, be · **To what, where:** things, graven images, gods · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 42:17 · 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 (Ye), 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:924
# text = They shall be turned back, greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images: 'Ye are our gods.'
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	graven	graven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
23	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	ccomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | shall · passive |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **trust** | present |  |  |  | graven images |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  | unto molten images | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Ye | our gods |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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נָסֹ֤גוּ אָחוֹר֙ יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ בֹ֔שֶׁת הַבֹּטְחִ֖ים בַּפָּ֑סֶל הָאֹמְרִ֥ים לְמַסֵּכָ֖ה אַתֶּ֥ם אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ס

[Isaiah 42:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.17/)

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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:924` 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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