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title: Isaiah 47:2 (JPS 1917) — Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. Who acts: you. Isaiah 47:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 47:2 · JPS 1917

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Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, grind, remove, strip off, uncover, pass · **To what, where:** millstones, meal, veil, train, leg, rivers

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This is Isaiah 47:2 · 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 (you), 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:1044
# text = Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	millstones	millstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	grind	grind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	remove	remove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	strip	strip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	uncover	uncover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	pass	pass	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the millstones |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millstone=Theme |
| 2 | **grind** | infinitive | you *not said here* | meal |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 3 | **remove** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy veil |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme |
| 4 | **strip off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the train |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Patient |
| 5 | **uncover** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the leg |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pass** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the rivers |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through river=Location |

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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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קְחִ֥י רֵחַ֖יִם וְטַ֣חֲנִי קָ֑מַח גַּלִּ֨י צַמָּתֵ֧ךְ חֶשְׂפִּי־שֹׁ֛בֶל גַּלִּי־שׁ֖וֹק עִבְרִ֥י נְהָרֽוֹת׃

[Isaiah 47:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.2/)

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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:1044` 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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