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title: Isaiah 25:12 (JPS 1917) — And the high fortress of thy walls will He bring down, lay low, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the high fortress of thy walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. Who acts: pride. Isaiah 25:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 25:12 · JPS 1917

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And the high fortress of thy walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

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**Who acts:** pride · **What happens:** bring down, lay, bring · **To what, where:** high fortress, ground

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This is Isaiah 25:12 · 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 (pride), 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:522
# text = And the high fortress of thy walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring down** | future | pride | the high fortress of thy walls |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fortress=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | pride *not said here* |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | pride *not said here* |  |  | the ground to the dust |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to ground=Destination |

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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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וּמִבְצַ֞ר מִשְׂגַּ֣ב חוֹמֹתֶ֗יךָ הֵשַׁ֥ח הִשְׁפִּ֛יל הִגִּ֥יעַ לָאָ֖רֶץ עַד־עָפָֽר׃ס

[Isaiah 25:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.12/)

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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:522` 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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