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title: Isaiah 42:24 (JPS 1917) — Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? · tree and pragmatics
description: Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Isaiah 42:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 42:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Jacob

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This is Isaiah 42:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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: 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:934
# text = Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- 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 | **give** | past |  | Jacob and Israel to the robbers |  |  |  | for a spoil | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent jacob=Theme for spoil=Asset |

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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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מִֽי־נָתַ֨ן לִמְשִׁסָּ֧היַעֲקֹ֛ב וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל לְבֹזְזִ֖ים הֲל֣וֹא יְהוָ֑ה ז֚וּ חָטָ֣אנוּ ל֔וֹ וְלֹֽא־אָב֤וּ בִדְרָכָיו֙ הָל֔וֹךְ וְלֹ֥א שָׁמְע֖וּ בְּתוֹרָתֽוֹ׃

[Isaiah 42:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.24/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?**
2. [Did not the LORD?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.935/)
3. [He against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto His law.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.936/)

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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:934` 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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