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title: Isaiah 17:3 (JPS 1917) — The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Dam… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. Who acts: fortress, remnant, LORD. Isaiah 17:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 17:3 · JPS 1917

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The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

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**Who acts:** fortress, remnant, LORD · **What happens:** cease, be, say · **To what, where:** Ephraim · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 17:3 · 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 (fortress, remnant, LORD), 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:362
# text = The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	remnant	remnant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Aram	Aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **cease** | shall | the fortress |  |  | Ephraim |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | shall | the remnant of Aram |  |  |  |  | as the glory; of the children of Israel | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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וְנִשְׁבַּ֤ת מִבְצָר֙ מֵֽאֶפְרַ֔יִם וּמַמְלָכָ֥ה מִדַּמֶּ֖שֶׂק וּשְׁאָ֣ר אֲרָ֑ם כִּכְב֤וֹד בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ יִֽהְי֔וּ נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃ס

[Isaiah 17:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.3/)

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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:362` 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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