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title: Isaiah 16:7 (JPS 1917) — Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail; for the sw… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail; for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, sorely stricken. Who acts: Moab, one, ye. Isaiah 16:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 16:7 · JPS 1917

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Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail; for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, sorely stricken.

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**Who acts:** Moab, one, ye · **What happens:** wail, mourn, stricken

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This is Isaiah 16:7 · 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, one, ye), 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:351
# text = Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail; for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, sorely stricken.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wail	wail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	wail	wail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Kir	Kir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hareseth	Hareseth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	stricken	stricken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wail** | shall | Moab |  |  |  |  | for Moab; therefore *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for moab=Recipient |
| 2 | **wail** | shall | every one |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mourn** | shall | ye |  |  |  |  | for the sweet cakes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for cake=Attribute |
| 4 | **stricken** | participle | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorely *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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לָכֵ֗ן יְיֵלִ֥יל מוֹאָ֛ב לְמוֹאָ֖ב כֻּלֹּ֣ה יְיֵלִ֑יל לַאֲשִׁישֵׁ֧י קִיר־חֲרֶ֛שֶׂתקִיר־חֲרֶ֛שֶׂת תֶּהְגּ֖וּ אַךְ־נְכָאִֽים׃

[Isaiah 16:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.7/)

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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:351` 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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