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title: Isaiah 63:2 (JPS 1917) — 'Wherefore is Thine apparel red, and Thy garments like his that trea… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Wherefore is Thine apparel red, and Thy garments like his that treadeth in the winevat?' — Who acts: apparel, garments. Isaiah 63:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 63:2 · JPS 1917

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'Wherefore is Thine apparel red, and Thy garments like his that treadeth in the winevat?' —

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**Who acts:** apparel, garments · **What happens:** be, tread · **To what, where:** winevat

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This is Isaiah 63:2 · 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 (apparel, garments), 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:1343
# text = 'Wherefore is Thine apparel red, and Thy garments like his that treadeth in the winevat?' —
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	apparel	apparel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	treadeth	tread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	winevat	winevat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	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** | present | Thine apparel |  |  |  |  | red, wherefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tread** | present | Thy garments like Edom |  |  | the winevat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in winevat=Trajectory |

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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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מַדּ֥וּעַ אָדֹ֖ם לִלְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ וּבְגָדֶ֖יךָ כְּדֹרֵ֥ךְ בְּגַֽת׃

[Isaiah 63:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.2/)

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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:1343` 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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