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title: Isaiah 28:28 (JPS 1917) — Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it. Who acts: corn, roller. Isaiah 28:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 28:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it.

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**Who acts:** corn, roller · **What happens:** not thresh, move, not crush, roll · **To what, where:** cummin, wagon

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This is Isaiah 28:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (corn, roller), 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:589
# text = Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it.
1	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	threshing	thresh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	roller	roller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
22	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
23	noisily	noisily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **thresh** | future · progressive | corn | cummin |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | present | the roller of corn's wagon and cummin's sharp edges |  |  |  |  | noisily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **crush** | present · do-support | corn | cummin |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **roll** |  |  | corn's wagon |  |  |  |  | nom roller «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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לֶ֣חֶם יוּדָ֔ק כִּ֛י לֹ֥א לָנֶ֖צַח אָד֣וֹשׁ יְדוּשֶׁ֑נּוּ וְ֠הָמַם גִּלְגַּ֧ל עֶגְלָת֛וֹ וּפָרָשָׁ֖יו לֹֽא־יְדֻקֶּֽנּוּ׃

[Isaiah 28:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.28/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Is bread corn crushed?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.588/)
2. **Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it.**

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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:589` 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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