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title: Isaiah 19:16 (JPS 1917) — In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and… · tree and pragmatics
description: In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shaketh over it. Who acts: Egypt, work. Isaiah 19:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 19:16 · JPS 1917

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In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shaketh over it.

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**Who acts:** Egypt, work · **What happens:** be, tremble, fear, shake · **To what, where:** hand, work

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This is Isaiah 19:16 · 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 (Egypt, work), 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:400
# text = In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shaketh over it.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
31	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	shaketh	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | Egypt |  |  |  | day | unto women; like *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tremble** | shall | work |  |  |  |  | because the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fear** | infinitive | work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **shake** | present | Egypt | the hand of the LORD of hosts |  | work |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme over it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **shake** |  |  | the hand of the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  | nom shaking «act transitive»: of=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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בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא יִֽהְיֶ֥ה מִצְרַ֖יִם כַּנָּשִׁ֑ים וְחָרַ֣ד ׀ וּפָחַ֗ד מִפְּנֵי֙ תְּנוּפַת֙ יַד־יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת אֲשֶׁר־ה֖וּא מֵנִ֥יף עָלָֽיו׃

[Isaiah 19:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.16/)

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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:400` 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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