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title: Isaiah 52:5 — Now therefore, what do I here, saith the LORD, seeing that My people… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore, what do I here, saith the LORD, seeing that My people is taken away for nought? They that rule over them do howl, saith the LORD, and My name continually all the day is blasphemed. Who acts: LORD, people, My. Isaiah 52:5 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 an
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# Isaiah 52:5 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ

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**Who acts:** LORD, people, My · **What happens:** say, see, take away, rule, howl, blaspheme · **To what, where:** people, name · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Isaiah 52:5 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — LORD, people, My — and what happens in the verse to people, name, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 66 chapters of Isaiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וְעַתָּ֤ה מַה־לִּי־פֹה֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה כִּֽי־לֻקַּ֥ח עַמִּ֖י חִנָּ֑ם מֹשְׁלָ֤יו יְהֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה וְתָמִ֥יד כָּל־הַיּ֖וֹם שְׁמִ֥י מִנֹּאָֽץ׃

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[Now therefore, what do I here, saith the LORD, seeing that My people is taken away for nought?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1160/) [They that rule over them do howl, saith the LORD, and My name continually all the day is blasphemed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1161/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:ISA:1046
# text = וְעַתָּ֤ה מַה־לִּי־פֹה֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה כִּֽי־לֻקַּ֥ח עַמִּ֖י חִנָּ֑ם מֹשְׁלָ֤יו יְהֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה וְתָמִ֥יד כָּל־הַיּ֖וֹם שְׁמִ֥י מִנֹּאָֽץ׃
# verse = ISA.52.5
1-2	וְעַתָּ֤ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_52:5!1|MId=o230520050011|Strong=2050b
2	עַתָּ֤ה	עַתָּה	ADV	_	_	0	root	_	Gloss=therefore|Ref=ISA_52:5!1|MId=o230520050012|Strong=6258
3	מַה־	מָה	PRON	_	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	Gloss=what?|Ref=ISA_52:5!4|MId=o230520050041|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative|SpaceAfter=No
4-5	לִּי־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	לּ	לְ	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	Gloss=[belongs].to|Ref=ISA_52:5!5|MId=o230520050051|Strong=3807a
5	ִי־	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	parataxis	_	Gloss=me|Ref=ISA_52:5!5|MId=o230520050052|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
6	פֹה֙	פֹּה	ADV	_	_	5	advmod	_	Gloss=here|Ref=ISA_52:5!6|MId=o230520050061|Strong=6311
7	נְאֻם־	נְאֻם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Gloss=the.utterance|Ref=ISA_52:5!7|MId=o230520050071|Strong=5002|SpaceAfter=No
8	יְהוָ֔ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	7	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=ISA_52:5!8|MId=o230520050081|Strong=3068
9	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	10	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=ISA_52:5!9|MId=o230520050091|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No
10	לֻקַּ֥ח	לָקַח	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	advcl	_	Gloss=it.was.taken|Ref=ISA_52:5!10|MId=o230520050101|Strong=3947|Frame=A1:230520050111;|Type=qatal
11-12	עַמִּ֖י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	עַמּ	עַם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Gloss=people|Ref=ISA_52:5!11|MId=o230520050111|Strong=5971
12	ִ֖י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=my|Ref=ISA_52:5!11|MId=o230520050112|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
13	חִנָּ֑ם	חִנָּם	ADV	_	_	10	advmod	_	Gloss=for.nothing|Ref=ISA_52:5!12|MId=o230520050121|Strong=2600
14-15	מֹשְׁלָ֤יו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	מֹשְׁלָ֤י	מָשַׁל	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	Gloss=rulers|Ref=ISA_52:5!14|MId=o230520050141|Strong=4910|Frame=A1:230520050142;|Type=participle_active
15	ו	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=its|Ref=ISA_52:5!14|MId=o230520050142|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
16	יְהֵילִ֙ילוּ֙	יָלַל	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=3	2	parataxis	_	Gloss=they.wail|Ref=ISA_52:5!15|MId=o230520050151|Strong=3213|Frame=A0:230520050141;|Type=yiqtol
17	נְאֻם־	נְאֻם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Gloss=the.utterance|Ref=ISA_52:5!16|MId=o230520050161|Strong=5002|SpaceAfter=No
18	יְהוָ֔ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	17	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=ISA_52:5!17|MId=o230520050171|Strong=3068
19-20	וְתָמִ֥יד	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	26	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_52:5!18|MId=o230520050181|Strong=2050b
20	תָמִ֥יד	תָּמִיד	ADV	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	26	advmod	_	Gloss=continually|Ref=ISA_52:5!18|MId=o230520050182|Strong=8548
21	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Gloss=all|Ref=ISA_52:5!19|MId=o230520050191|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No
22-23	הַיּ֖וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
22	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	23	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=ISA_52:5!20|MId=o230520050201|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
23	יּ֖וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	21	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=day|Ref=ISA_52:5!20|MId=o230520050202|Strong=3117
24-25	שְׁמִ֥י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
24	שְׁמ	שֵׁם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	Gloss=name|Ref=ISA_52:5!21|MId=o230520050211|Strong=8034
25	ִ֥י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=my|Ref=ISA_52:5!21|MId=o230520050212|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
26	מִנֹּאָֽץ	נָאַץ	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPOLEL|Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Gloss=[is].reviled|Ref=ISA_52:5!22|MId=o230520050221|Strong=5006|Frame=A1:230520050211;|Type=participle_passive|SpaceAfter=No
27	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	26	punct	_	Ref=ISA_52:5!22
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| לֻקַּח *it was taken* | qatal · pual |  | עַמּ *people* |  |  |
| מֹשְׁלָי *rulers* | participle active · qal |  | ו *its* |  |  |
| יְהֵילִילוּ *they wail* | yiqtol · hiphil | מֹשְׁלָי *rulers* |  |  |  |
| מִנֹּאָֽץ *\[is\] reviled* | participle passive · hithpolel |  | שְׁמ *name* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וּכְעַן עֲתִידְנָא לְמִפְרַק אֲמַר יְיָ אֲרֵי אִזְדַבַּן עַמִי מַגָן עַמְמַיָא דִשְׁלִיטוּ בְהוֹן מִשְׁתַּבְּחִין אֲמַר יְיָ וּתְדִירָא כָּל יוֹמָא עַל פּוּלְחָן שְׁמִי מַרְגְזִין:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [Now therefore, what do I here, saith the LORD, seeing that My people is taken away for nought?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1160/)
2. [They that rule over them do howl, saith the LORD, and My name continually all the day is blasphemed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1161/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:ISA:1046`.

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