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title: Isaiah 42:22 (JPS 1917) — But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared… · tree and pragmatics
description: But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith: 'Restore.' Who acts: this, people, none. Isaiah 42:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Isaiah 42:22 · JPS 1917

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But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith: 'Restore.'

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**Who acts:** this, people, none · **What happens:** be, rob, spoil, snare, hide, deliver · **To what, where:** people, holes, prison houses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 42:22 · 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 (this, people, none), 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:931
# text = But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith: 'Restore.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	robbed	rob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	snared	snare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	hid	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	36	nsubj	_	_
36	delivereth	deliver	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	44	nsubj	_	_
44	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
45	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	_
47	Restore	restore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	44	ccomp	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
49	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	47	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 | **is a** | present | this | a people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rob** | participle |  | a people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spoil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **snare** | present · passive |  | people |  | holes |  | all *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in hole=Destination |
| 5 | **hide** | present · passive |  | people |  | prison houses |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in house=Location |
| 6 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | for a prey | tree rules |
| 7 | **deliver** | present | none |  |  |  |  | for a spoil | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **restore** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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וְהוּא֮ עַם־בָּז֣וּז וְשָׁסוּי֒ הָפֵ֤חַ בַּֽחוּרִים֙ כֻּלָּ֔ם וּבְבָתֵּ֥י כְלָאִ֖ים הָחְבָּ֑אוּ הָי֤וּ לָבַז֙ וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּ֔יל מְשִׁסָּ֖ה וְאֵין־אֹמֵ֥ר הָשַֽׁב׃

[Isaiah 42:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.22/)

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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:931` 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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