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title: Isaiah 15:2 (JPS 1917) — He is gone up to Baith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; u… · tree and pragmatics
description: He is gone up to Baith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; upon Nebo, and upon Medeba, Moab howleth; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is shaven. Who acts: Moab, beard. Isaiah 15:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 15:2 · JPS 1917

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He is gone up to Baith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; upon Nebo, and upon Medeba, Moab howleth; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is shaven.

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**Who acts:** Moab, beard · **What happens:** go up, weep, howl, be · **To what, where:** Kir, Baith, Nebo, baldness, heads

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This is Isaiah 15:2 · 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 (Moab, beard), 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:337
# text = He is gone up to Baith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; upon Nebo, and upon Medeba, Moab howleth; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is shaven.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Baith	Baith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Dibon	Dibon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Nebo	Nebo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Medeba	Medeba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	howleth	howl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	baldness	baldness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	shaven	shaven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | present · passive |  | Kir | Baith and Dibon to the high places |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent to baith=Result |
| 2 | **weep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **howl** | present | Moab |  |  | Nebo |  | upon Medeba | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon nebo=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | baldness |  | places's heads |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | every beard |  |  |  |  | shaven *property* | tree rules |

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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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עָלָ֨ה הַבַּ֧יִת וְדִיבֹ֛ן הַבָּמ֖וֹת לְבֶ֑כִי עַל־נְב֞וֹ וְעַ֤ל מֵֽידְבָא֙ מוֹאָ֣ב יְיֵלִ֔יל בְּכָל־רֹאשָׁ֣יו קָרְחָ֔ה כָּל־זָקָ֖ן גְּרוּעָֽה׃

[Isaiah 15:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.15.2/)

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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:337` 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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