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title: Isaiah 28:27 (JPS 1917) — For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, neithe… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the black cummin is beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. Isaiah 28:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 28:27 · JPS 1917

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For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the black cummin is beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

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**What happens:** not thresh, be, turn about, beat out · **To what, where:** black cummin, cart wheel, cummin

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This is Isaiah 28:27 · 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:587
# text = For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the black cummin is beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
1	For	for	CCONJ	IN	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cummin	cummin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	threshed	thresh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	threshing	threshing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cummin	cummin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cummin	cummin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	cummin	cummin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **thresh** | present · passive |  | the black cummin |  |  |  | with a threshing sledge | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a cart wheel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn about** | participle |  | a cart wheel *not said here* |  | the cummin |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon cummin=Trajectory |
| 4 | **beat out** | present · passive |  | the black cummin |  |  |  | with a staff | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with staff=Instrument |

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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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כִּ֣י לֹ֤א בֶֽחָרוּץ֙ י֣וּדַשׁ קֶ֔צַח וְאוֹפַ֣ן עֲגָלָ֔ה עַל־כַּמֹּ֖ן יוּסָּ֑ב כִּ֧י בַמַּטֶּ֛ה יֵחָ֥בֶט קֶ֖צַח וְכַמֹּ֥ן בַּשָּֽׁבֶט׃

[Isaiah 28:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.27/)

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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:587` 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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