--- title: Isaiah 27:10 (JPS 1917) — For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsa… · tree and pragmatics description: For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken, like the wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. Who acts: fortified city, calf. 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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 (fortified city, calf), 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:555 # text = For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken, like the wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 fortified fortify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 solitary solitary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 habitation habitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 10 abandoned abandon VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 forsaken forsake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 29 down down ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 consume consume VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fortify** | participle | | | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the fortified city | | | | | solitary *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **abandon** | participle | | a habitation *not said here* | | | | like the wilderness | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | shall | the calf | | | there | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lie down** | shall | calf | | | there | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **consume** | infinitive | calf *not said here* | the branches | | | | thereof *property* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Asset | 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} כִּ֣י עִ֤יר בְּצוּרָה֙ בָּדָ֔ד נָוֶ֕ה מְשֻׁלָּ֥ח וְנֶעֱזָ֖ב כַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר שָׁ֣ם יִרְעֶ֥ה עֵ֛גֶל וְשָׁ֥ם יִרְבָּ֖ץ וְכִלָּ֥ה סְעִפֶֽיהָ׃ [Isaiah 27:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:555` 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 27:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.554/) - next →: [Isaiah 27:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.556/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 27:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.10/)