--- title: Isaiah 17:6 (JPS 1917) — Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an o… · tree and pragmatics description: Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the branches of the fruitful tree, saith the LORD, the God of Israel. Who acts: LORD. 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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 (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:365 # text = Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the branches of the fruitful tree, saith the LORD, the God of Israel. 1 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 therein therein ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 gleanings gleaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 beating beating NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 olive olive NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 22 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 uppermost uppermost ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bough bough NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 appos _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 fruitful fruitful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 appos _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | shall · passive | | gleanings | | there | | as the beating of a olive tree; therein *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **beat** | | | a olive tree | | | | | nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} וְנִשְׁאַר־בּ֤וֹ עֽוֹלֵלֹת֙ כְּנֹ֣קֶף זַ֔יִת שְׁנַ֧יִם שְׁלֹשָׁ֛ה גַּרְגְּרִ֖ים בְּרֹ֣אשׁ אָמִ֑יר אַרְבָּעָ֣ה חֲמִשָּׁ֗ה בִּסְעִפֶ֙יהָ֙ פֹּֽרִיָּ֔ה נְאֻם־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס [Isaiah 17:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:365` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 17:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.364/) - next →: [Isaiah 17:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.366/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 17:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.6/)