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title: Isaiah 3:16 (JPS 1917) — Moreover the LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover the LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet; Who acts: LORD, daughters. Isaiah 3:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Isaiah 3:16 · JPS 1917

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Moreover the LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;

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**Who acts:** LORD, daughters · **What happens:** say, be, walk, stretch, mince, go · **To what, where:** tinkling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 3:16 · 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 (LORD, daughters), 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:72
# text = Moreover the LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	wanton	wanton	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	mincing	mince	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	tinkling	tinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | moreover *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the daughters of Zion |  |  |  |  | haughty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | present | the daughters of Zion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with stretched necks and wanton eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stretch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **walk** | gerund | the daughters of Zion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **mince** | gerund | the daughters of Zion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **go** | present | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **make** | gerund | the daughters of Zion *not said here* | a tinkling |  |  |  | with daughters's feet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tinkling=Product |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה יַ֚עַן כִּ֤י גָֽבְהוּ֙ בְּנ֣וֹת צִיּ֔וֹן וַתֵּלַ֙כְנָה֙ נְטוּי֣וֹת גָּר֔וֹן וּֽמְשַׂקְּר֖וֹת עֵינָ֑יִם הָל֤וֹךְ וְטָפֹף֙ תֵּלַ֔כְנָה וּבְרַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם תְּעַכַּֽסְנָה׃

[Isaiah 3:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.16/)

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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:72` 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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