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title: Isaiah 16:8 (JPS 1917) — For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, whose ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, whose choice plants did overcome the lords of nations; they reached even unto Jazer, they wandered into the wilderness; her branches were spread abroad, they passed over the sea. Who acts: fields, choice plants, plants, branches. Isaiah 16:
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# Isaiah 16:8 · JPS 1917

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For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, whose choice plants did overcome the lords of nations; they reached even unto Jazer, they wandered into the wilderness; her branches were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

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**Who acts:** fields, choice plants, plants, branches · **What happens:** languish, overcome, reach, wander, spread, pass · **To what, where:** lords, wilderness, branches, sea

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This is Isaiah 16:8 · 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 (fields, choice plants, plants, branches), 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:352
# text = For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, whose choice plants did overcome the lords of nations; they reached even unto Jazer, they wandered into the wilderness; her branches were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Heshbon	Heshbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	languish	languish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Sibmah	Sibmah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Jazer	Jazer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
40	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	.	.	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 | **languish** | present | the fields of Heshbon and the vine of Sibmah |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **overcome** | past · do-support | choice plants | the lords of nations |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lord=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | plants *= plant* |  |  |  |  | unto Jazer | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wander** | past | plants *= plant* |  |  | the wilderness |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=Destination |
| 5 | **spread** | past · passive |  | Jazer's branches |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **pass** | past | branches *= branch* |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over sea=Location |

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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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כִּ֣י שַׁדְמוֹת֩ חֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן אֻמְלָ֜ל גֶּ֣פֶן שִׂבְמָ֗ה בַּעֲלֵ֤י גוֹיִם֙ הָלְמ֣וּ שְׂרוּקֶּ֔יהָ עַד־יַעְזֵ֥ר נָגָ֖עוּ תָּ֣עוּ מִדְבָּ֑ר שְׁלֻ֣חוֹתֶ֔יהָ נִטְּשׁ֖וּ עָ֥בְרוּ יָֽם׃

[Isaiah 16:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.8/)

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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:352` 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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