# you know are not trees for food

"you know are not trees that grow fruit to eat"

# siege works

These are tools and structures, such as ladders and towers, that are needed to lay siege to a city.

# until it falls

This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "until the people of the city lose the war" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# it falls

Here "it" refers to the city which represents the people of the city. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])