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title: Isaiah 22:1 (JPS 1917) — What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops, · tree and pragmatics
description: What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops, Who acts: thou. Isaiah 22:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 22:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops,

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** ail, go up · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Isaiah 22:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (thou), 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:442
# text = What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops,
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	aileth	ail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
8	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	housetops	housetop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=wh, act=ask, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ail** | present |  | thee |  |  | now |  | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient thou=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go up** | present · passive | thou |  |  |  |  | to the housetops; wholly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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מַשָּׂ֖א גֵּ֣יא חִזָּי֑וֹן מַה־לָּ֣ךְ אֵפ֔וֹא כִּֽי־עָלִ֥ית כֻּלָּ֖ךְ לַגַּגּֽוֹת׃

[Isaiah 22:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [The burden concerning the Valley of Vision.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.441/)
2. **What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops,**

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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:442` 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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