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title: Isaiah 28:7 (JPS 1917) — But these also reel through wine, and stagger through strong drink;… · tree and pragmatics
description: But these also reel through wine, and stagger through strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel through strong drink, they are confused because of wine, they stagger because of strong drink; they reel in vision, they totter in judgment. Who acts: these, priest. Isaiah 28:7 in JPS 1917 with its d
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# Isaiah 28:7 · JPS 1917

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But these also reel through wine, and stagger through strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel through strong drink, they are confused because of wine, they stagger because of strong drink; they reel in vision, they totter in judgment.

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**Who acts:** these, priest · **What happens:** reel, stagger, be, totter · **To what, where:** wine, strong drink, vision, judgment

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This is Isaiah 28:7 · 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 (these, priest), 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:565
# text = But these also reel through wine, and stagger through strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel through strong drink, they are confused because of wine, they stagger because of strong drink; they reel in vision, they totter in judgment.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	reel	reel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stagger	stagger	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	reel	reel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
27	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	stagger	stagger	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
33	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	36	case	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	reel	reel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	totter	totter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **reel** | present | these |  |  | wine |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stagger** | present | these *not said here* |  |  | strong drink |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through drink=Trajectory |
| 3 | **reel** | present | the priest and the prophet |  |  | strong drink |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | priest |  |  |  |  | because wine; confused *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **stagger** | present | priest |  |  |  |  | because strong drink | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **reel** | present | priest |  |  | vision |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **totter** | present | priest |  |  | judgment |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in judgment=Location |

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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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וְגַם־אֵ֙לֶּה֙ בַּיַּ֣יִן שָׁג֔וּ וּבַשֵּׁכָ֖ר תָּע֑וּ כֹּהֵ֣ן וְנָבִיא֩ שָׁג֨וּ בַשֵּׁכָ֜ר נִבְלְע֣וּ מִן־הַיַּ֗יִן תָּעוּ֙ מִן־הַשֵּׁכָ֔ר שָׁגוּ֙ בָּֽרֹאֶ֔ה פָּק֖וּ פְּלִילִיָּֽה׃

[Isaiah 28:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.7/)

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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:565` 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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