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title: Isaiah 19:8 (JPS 1917) — The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. Who acts: fishers. Isaiah 19:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 19:8 · JPS 1917

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The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

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**Who acts:** fishers · **What happens:** lament, cast, mourn, spread, languish · **To what, where:** angle, Nile, nets, waters

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This is Isaiah 19:8 · 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 (fishers), 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:391
# text = The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fishers	fisher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lament	lament	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	angle	angle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	languish	languish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **lament** | shall | the fishers |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cast** | present |  | angle |  | the Nile |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent angle=Material into nile=Product |
| 3 | **mourn** | shall | fishers *= fisher* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **spread** | present |  | nets |  | the waters |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent net=Theme upon water=Destination |
| 5 | **languish** | shall | fishers *= fisher* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְאָנוּ֙ הַדַּיָּגִ֔ים וְאָ֣בְל֔וּ כָּל־מַשְׁלִיכֵ֥י בַיְא֖וֹר חַכָּ֑ה וּפֹרְשֵׂ֥י מִכְמֹ֛רֶת עַל־פְּנֵי־מַ֖יִם אֻמְלָֽלוּ׃

[Isaiah 19:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.8/)

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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:391` 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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