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title: Isaiah 19:6 (JPS 1917) — And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be mini… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither. Who acts: rivers, reeds. Isaiah 19:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 19:6 · JPS 1917

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And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither.

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**Who acts:** rivers, reeds · **What happens:** become, minish, dry up, wither · **To what, where:** streams

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This is Isaiah 19:6 · 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 (rivers, reeds), 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:389
# text = And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	foul	foul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	minished	minish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	wither	wither	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **become** | shall | the rivers |  |  |  |  | foul *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **minish** | shall · passive |  | the streams of Egypt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dry up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **wither** | shall | the reeds and flags |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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וְהֶאֶזְנִ֣יחוּ נְהָר֔וֹת דָּלֲל֥וּ וְחָרְב֖וּ יְאֹרֵ֣י מָצ֑וֹר קָנֶ֥ה וָס֖וּף קָמֵֽלוּ׃

[Isaiah 19:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.6/)

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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:389` 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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