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title: Isaiah 5:9 (JPS 1917) — In mine ears said the LORD of hosts: of a truth many houses shall be… · tree and pragmatics
description: In mine ears said the LORD of hosts: of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. Who acts: LORD, many houses. Isaiah 5:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 5:9 · JPS 1917

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In mine ears said the LORD of hosts: of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

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**Who acts:** LORD, many houses · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 5:9 · 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 (LORD, many houses), 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:99
# text = In mine ears said the LORD of hosts: of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- 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 of hosts | mine ears |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | shall | many houses |  |  |  |  | of a truth; without inhabitant; desolate *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | many houses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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בְּאָזְנָ֖י יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת אִם־לֹ֞א בָּתִּ֤ים רַבִּים֙ לְשַׁמָּ֣ה יִֽהְי֔וּ גְּדֹלִ֥ים וְטוֹבִ֖ים מֵאֵ֥ין יוֹשֵֽׁב׃

[Isaiah 5:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.9/)

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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:99` 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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