--- title: Isaiah 5:6 (JPS 1917) — And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there… · tree and pragmatics description: And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there shall come up briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. Who acts: I, clouds. 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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, clouds), 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:96 # text = And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there shall come up briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 waste waste ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 pruned prune VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 13 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 14 cc _ _ 14 hoed hoe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 19 expl _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 briers brier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 also also ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 command command VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 rain rain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 upon upon ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | future | I | vineyard | | | | waste *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result | | 2 | **not** **prune** | shall · passive | | vineyard | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **hoe** | participle | | | | | | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come up** | shall | | briers and thorns | | there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **command** | future | I | the clouds | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cloud=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **rain** | present | clouds *= cloud* | no rain | | | | upon vineyard | tree rules | 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} וַאֲשִׁיתֵ֣הוּ בָתָ֗ה לֹ֤א יִזָּמֵר֙ וְלֹ֣א יֵעָדֵ֔ר וְעָלָ֥ה שָׁמִ֖יר וָשָׁ֑יִת וְעַ֤ל הֶעָבִים֙ אֲצַוֶּ֔ה מֵהַמְטִ֥יר עָלָ֖יו מָטָֽר׃ [Isaiah 5:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:96` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 5:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.95/) - next →: [Isaiah 5:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.97/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 5:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.6/)