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title: Isaiah 13:21 (JPS 1917) — But wild-cats shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of fer… · tree and pragmatics
description: But wild-cats shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of ferrets; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. Who acts: wild cats, houses, ostriches, satyrs. Isaiah 13:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 13:21 · JPS 1917

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But wild-cats shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of ferrets; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

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**Who acts:** wild cats, houses, ostriches, satyrs · **What happens:** lie, be, dwell, dance

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This is Isaiah 13:21 · 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 (wild cats, houses, ostriches, satyrs), 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:297
# text = But wild-cats shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of ferrets; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ferrets	ferret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	satyrs	satyr	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **lie** | shall | wild cats |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | shall | cats's houses |  |  |  |  | of ferrets; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | shall | ostriches |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dance** | shall | satyrs |  |  | there |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְרָבְצוּ־שָׁ֣ם צִיִּ֔ים וּמָלְא֥וּ בָתֵּיהֶ֖ם אֹחִ֑ים וְשָׁ֤כְנוּ שָׁם֙ בְּנ֣וֹת יַֽעֲנָ֔ה וּשְׂעִירִ֖ים יְרַקְּדוּ־שָֽׁם׃

[Isaiah 13:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.21/)

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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:297` 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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