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title: Isaiah 28:21 (JPS 1917) — For the LORD will rise up as in mount Perazim, He will be wroth as i… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the LORD will rise up as in mount Perazim, He will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that He may do His work, strange is His work, and bring to pass His act, strange is His act. Who acts: LORD, strange, act. Isaiah 28:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 28:21 · JPS 1917

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For the LORD will rise up as in mount Perazim, He will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that He may do His work, strange is His work, and bring to pass His act, strange is His act.

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**Who acts:** LORD, strange, act · **What happens:** rise up, be, do, bring, pass, work · **To what, where:** work, act

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This is Isaiah 28:21 · 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 (LORD, strange, act), 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:581
# text = For the LORD will rise up as in mount Perazim, He will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that He may do His work, strange is His work, and bring to pass His act, strange is His act.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	Perazim	Perazim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Gibeon	Gibeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
27	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
44	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **rise up** | future | the LORD |  |  |  |  | as mount | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | future | Lord |  |  |  |  | as the valley of Gibeon; wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | may | Lord | Lord's work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | present | strange | Lord's work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | infinitive | Lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Lord *not said here* | Lord's act |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme act=Trajectory |
| 7 | **is** | present | Lord's act |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **work** |  | Lord |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **act** |  | Lord |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **act** |  | Lord |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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כִּ֤י כְהַר־פְּרָצִים֙ יָק֣וּם יְהוָ֔ה כְּעֵ֖מֶק בְּגִבְע֣וֹן יִרְגָּ֑ז לַעֲשׂ֤וֹת מַעֲשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ זָ֣ר מַעֲשֵׂ֔הוּ וְלַֽעֲבֹד֙ עֲבֹ֣דָת֔וֹ נָכְרִיָּ֖ה עֲבֹדָתֽוֹ׃

[Isaiah 28:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.21/)

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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:581` 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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