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title: Isaiah 34:9 (JPS 1917) — And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust the… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. Who acts: land. Isaiah 34:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 34:9 · JPS 1917

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And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

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**Who acts:** land · **What happens:** turn, become, burn · **To what, where:** streams, pitch, burning pitch

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This is Isaiah 34:9 · 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 (land), 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:716
# text = And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	brimstone	brimstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	orphan	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	amod	_	_
25	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **turn** | shall · passive |  | the streams |  | pitch |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into pitch=Trajectory |
| 2 | **become** | shall | the land | burning pitch |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: 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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וְנֶהֶפְכ֤וּ נְחָלֶ֙יהָ֙ לְזֶ֔פֶת וַעֲפָרָ֖הּ לְגָפְרִ֑ית וְהָיְתָ֣ה אַרְצָ֔הּ לְזֶ֖פֶת בֹּעֵרָֽה׃

[Isaiah 34:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.9/)

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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:716` 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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