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title: Isaiah 63:1 (JPS 1917) — 'Who is this that cometh from Edom, with crimsoned garments from Boz… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Who is this that cometh from Edom, with crimsoned garments from Bozrah? Who acts: this. Isaiah 63:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 63:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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'Who is this that cometh from Edom, with crimsoned garments from Bozrah?

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** be, come, crimson · **To what, where:** Edom

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This is Isaiah 63:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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:1341
# text = 'Who is this that cometh from Edom, with crimsoned garments from Bozrah?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Edom	Edom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	crimsoned	crimson	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Bozrah	Bozrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- 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 | **is a** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present |  |  |  | Edom |  | with crimsoned garments from Bozrah | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from edom=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **crimson** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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מִי־זֶ֣ה ׀ בָּ֣א מֵאֱד֗וֹם חֲמ֤וּץ בְּגָדִים֙ מִבָּצְרָ֔ה זֶ֚ה הָד֣וּר בִּלְבוּשׁ֔וֹ צֹעֶ֖ה בְּרֹ֣ב כֹּח֑וֹ אֲנִ֛י מְדַבֵּ֥ר בִּצְדָקָ֖ה רַ֥ב לְהוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃

[Isaiah 63:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **'Who is this that cometh from Edom, with crimsoned garments from Bozrah?**
2. [This that is glorious in his apparel, stately in the greatness of his strength?' — 'I that speak in victory, mighty to save.' —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1342/)

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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:1341` 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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