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title: Isaiah 33:4 (JPS 1917) — And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts… · tree and pragmatics
description: And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts leap do they leap upon it. Who acts: caterpillar, locusts, your. Isaiah 33:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 33:4 · JPS 1917

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And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts leap do they leap upon it.

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**Who acts:** caterpillar, locusts, your · **What happens:** gather, leap, spoil · **To what, where:** spoil

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This is Isaiah 33:4 · 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 (caterpillar, locusts, your), 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:685
# text = And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts leap do they leap upon it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gathereth	gather	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	locusts	locust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	leap	leap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **gather** | present · passive |  | your spoil |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** | present | the caterpillar |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leap** | present | locusts |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leap** | present · do-support | locusts *= locust* |  |  |  |  | upon caterpillar | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **spoil** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom spoil «possession transitive»: 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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וְאֻסַּ֣ף שְׁלַלְכֶ֔ם אֹ֖סֶף הֶֽחָסִ֑יל כְּמַשַּׁ֥ק גֵּבִ֖ים שׁוֹקֵ֥ק בּֽוֹ׃

[Isaiah 33:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.4/)

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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:685` 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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