--- title: Isaiah 23:1 (JPS 1917) — Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is n… · tree and pragmatics description: Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in; from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. Who acts: you, house. 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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 (you, house), 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:469 # text = Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in; from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. 1 Howl howl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 vocative _ _ 4 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Tarshish Tarshish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 advcl _ _ 12 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 17 mark _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 entering enter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 acl _ _ 23 in in ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Kittim Kittim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 revealed reveal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **howl** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | ye *vocative* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lay** | present · passive | | burden | | | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme waste=Destination | | 3 | **be** | present | no house | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **enter** | gerund | no house *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **reveal** | present · passive | | burden | ships *= ship* | the land of Kittim | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to they=Recipient | 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} מַשָּׂ֖א צֹ֑ר הֵילִ֣ילוּ ׀ אֳנִיּ֣וֹת תַּרְשִׁ֗ישׁ כִּֽי־שֻׁדַּ֤ד מִבַּ֙יִת֙ מִבּ֔וֹא מֵאֶ֥רֶץ כִּתִּ֖ים נִגְלָה־לָֽמוֹ׃ [Isaiah 23:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.1/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [The burden of Tyre.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.468/) 2. **Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in; from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:469` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 23:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.468/) - next →: [Isaiah 23:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.470/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 23:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.1/)