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title: Isaiah 19:15 (JPS 1917) — Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do. Who acts: work, head. Isaiah 19:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 19:15 · JPS 1917

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Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

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**Who acts:** work, head · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** work

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This is Isaiah 19:15 · 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 (work, head), 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:399
# text = Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
1	Neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | shall | any work |  |  | there |  | for Egypt | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | may | head or tail and palm branch or rush | any work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |

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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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וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֥ה לְמִצְרַ֖יִם מַֽעֲשֶׂ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֧ר יַעֲשֶׂ֛ה רֹ֥אשׁ וְזָנָ֖ב כִּפָּ֥ה וְאַגְמֽוֹן׃ס

[Isaiah 19:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.15/)

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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:399` 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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