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title: Isaiah 19:9 (JPS 1917) — Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed. Who acts: fishers. Isaiah 19:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 19:9 · JPS 1917

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Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.

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**Who acts:** fishers · **What happens:** work, comb, weave, be · **To what, where:** cotton

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This is Isaiah 19:9 · 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:392
# text = Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	combed	comb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	weave	weave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in combed flax | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in flax=Theme |
| 2 | **comb** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weave** | present |  | cotton |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cotton=Product |
| 4 | **is** | shall | fishers *= fisher* |  |  |  |  | ashamed, moreover *property* | tree rules |

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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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וּבֹ֛שׁוּ עֹבְדֵ֥י פִשְׁתִּ֖ים שְׂרִיק֑וֹת וְאֹרְגִ֖ים חוֹרָֽי׃

[Isaiah 19:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.9/)

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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:392` 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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