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title: Isaiah 5:4 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? Who acts: I, vineyard. Isaiah 5:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 5:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

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**Who acts:** I, vineyard · **What happens:** look, bring · **To what, where:** grapes, vineyard

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This is Isaiah 5:4 · 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 (I, vineyard), 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:94
# text = Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- 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 | **look** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bring** | should | vineyard | grapes |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grape=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past |  | vineyard |  |  |  | forth, wherefore *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination grape=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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מַה־לַּעֲשׂ֥וֹת עוֹד֙ לְכַרְמִ֔י וְלֹ֥א עָשִׂ֖יתִי בּ֑וֹ מַדּ֧וּעַ קִוֵּ֛יתִי לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת עֲנָבִ֖ים וַיַּ֥עַשׂ בְּאֻשִֽׁים׃

[Isaiah 5:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.93/)
2. **Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?**

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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:94` 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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