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title: Isaiah 42:15 (JPS 1917) — I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; a… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. Who acts: I, rivers. Isaiah 42:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 42:15 · JPS 1917

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I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

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**Who acts:** I, rivers · **What happens:** make, dry up, island · **To what, where:** waste mountains, herbs, pools

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This is Isaiah 42:15 · 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 (I, rivers), 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:921
# text = I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	waste	waste	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **make** | future | I | waste mountains and hills |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Product |
| 2 | **dry up** | infinitive | I *not said here* | hills's herbs |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient herb=Result |
| 3 | **make** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **island** |  | the rivers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dry up** | future | I *not said here* | the pools |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient pool=Result |

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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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אַחֲרִ֤יב הָרִים֙ וּגְבָע֔וֹת וְכָל־עֶשְׂבָּ֖ם אוֹבִ֑ישׁ וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י נְהָרוֹת֙ לָֽאִיִּ֔ים וַאֲגַמִּ֖ים אוֹבִֽישׁ׃

[Isaiah 42:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.15/)

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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:921` 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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