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title: Isaiah 21:5 (JPS 1917) — They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink —… · tree and pragmatics
description: They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink — 'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.' Who acts: loins. Isaiah 21:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 21:5 · JPS 1917

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They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink — 'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.'

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**Who acts:** loins · **What happens:** prepare, light, eat, drink, rise up, anoint · **To what, where:** table, lamps, shield

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This is Isaiah 21:5 · 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 (loins), 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:423
# text = They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink — 'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.'
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	prepare	prepare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	light	light	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Rise	rise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	vocative	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	anoint	anoint	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | present | loins *= loin* | the table |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Patient |
| 2 | **light** | present | loins *= loin* | the lamps |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product |
| 3 | **eat** | present | loins *= loin* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | present | loins *= loin* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rise up** | infinitive | loins *= loin* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ye's princes *vocative* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **anoint** | infinitive | loins *= loin* *not said here* | the shield |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=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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עָרֹ֧ךְ הַשֻּׁלְחָ֛ן צָפֹ֥ה הַצָּפִ֖ית אָכ֣וֹל שָׁתֹ֑ה ק֥וּמוּ הַשָּׂרִ֖ים מִשְׁח֥וּ מָגֵֽן׃פ

[Isaiah 21:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.5/)

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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:423` 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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