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title: Isaiah 28:24 (JPS 1917) — Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground? Isaiah 28:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 28:24 · JPS 1917

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Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?

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**What happens:** not do, plow, sow · **To what, where:** plowman

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This is Isaiah 28:24 · 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: 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:584
# text = Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plowman	plowman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	plowing	plow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sow	sow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	harrowing	harrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | present · passive |  | the plowman |  |  |  | with the opening of Lord's ground and harrowing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **plow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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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הֲכֹ֣ל הַיּ֔וֹם יַחֲרֹ֥שׁ הַחֹרֵ֖שׁ לִזְרֹ֑עַ יְפַתַּ֥ח וִֽישַׂדֵּ֖ד אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃

[Isaiah 28:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.24/)

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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:584` 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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