--- title: Joel 1:7 (JPS 1917) — He hath laid my vine waste, and blasted my fig-tree; he hath made it… · tree and pragmatics description: He hath laid my vine waste, and blasted my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it down, the branches thereof are made white. Who acts: worm. 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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 (worm), 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:JOL:7 # text = He hath laid my vine waste, and blasted my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it down, the branches thereof are made white. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 vine vine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 6 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 blasted blast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 fig fig NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 cast cast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 down down ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 32 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | present · perfect | worm | my vine | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Result | | 2 | **blast** | past | worm *not said here* | my fig tree | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present · perfect | worm | tree | | | | bare, clean *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 4 | **cast down** | past | worm *not said here* | tree | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 5 | **make** | present · passive | | the branches | | | | white *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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} שָׂ֤ם גַּפְנִי֙ לְשַׁמָּ֔ה וּתְאֵנָתִ֖י לִקְצָפָ֑ה חָשֹׂ֤ף חֲשָׂפָהּ֙ וְהִשְׁלִ֔יךְ הִלְבִּ֖ינוּ שָׂרִיגֶֽיהָ׃ [Joel 1:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOL:7` 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: [Joel 1:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.6/) - next →: [Joel 1:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.8/) - ↑ back to [Joel 1:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.7/)