--- title: Isaiah 28:1 (JPS 1917) — Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fa… · tree and pragmatics description: Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are smitten down with wine! Who acts: fading flower. 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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 (fading flower), 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:559 # text = Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are smitten down with wine! 1 Woe woe INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 drunkards drunkard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Ephraim Ephraim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 fading fade ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 glorious glorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 acl:relcl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 smitten smite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: fragment - act: express - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=frag, act=express, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the fading flower of Ephraim's glorious beauty | | | the head | | of the fat valley of drunkards | tree rules | | 2 | **smite down** | present · passive | | the fat valley of drunkards | | | | with wine | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with wine=Instrument | | 3 | **crown** | | | pride of the drunkards of Ephraim | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **pride** | | | the drunkards of Ephraim | | | | | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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} ה֗וֹי עֲטֶ֤רֶת גֵּאוּת֙ שִׁכֹּרֵ֣י אֶפְרַ֔יִם וְצִ֥יץ נֹבֵ֖ל צְבִ֣י תִפְאַרְתּ֑וֹ אֲשֶׁ֛ר עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ גֵּֽיא־שְׁמָנִ֖ים הֲל֥וּמֵי יָֽיִן׃ [Isaiah 28:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:559` 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 27:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.558/) - next →: [Isaiah 28:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.560/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 28:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.1/)