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title: Isaiah 45:20 (JPS 1917) — Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, ye that are escape… · tree and pragmatics
description: Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations; they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. Who acts: you, nations, knowledge, god. Isaiah 45:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Isaiah 45:20 · JPS 1917

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Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations; they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

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**Who acts:** you, nations, knowledge, god · **What happens:** assemble, come, draw, escape, have, carry · **To what, where:** yourselves, knowledge, wood

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This is Isaiah 45:20 · 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 (you, nations, knowledge, god), 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:1022
# text = Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations; they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
1	Assemble	assemble	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	near	near	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	vocative	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	graven	graven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
37	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourselves |  |  |  | ye *vocative* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near, together *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **escape** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the nations | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **have** | present | nations *= nation* | no knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
| 6 | **carry** | present | no knowledge | the wood of nations's graven image |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 7 | **pray** | infinitive | no knowledge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto a god | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 8 | **not** **save** | can | a god |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **image** |  | nations *= nation* |  |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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הִקָּבְצ֥וּ וָבֹ֛אוּ הִֽתְנַגְּשׁ֥וּ יַחְדָּ֖ו פְּלִיטֵ֣י הַגּוֹיִ֑ם לֹ֣א יָדְע֗וּ הַנֹּֽשְׂאִים֙ אֶת־עֵ֣ץ פִּסְלָ֔ם וּמִתְפַּלְלִ֔ים אֶל־אֵ֖ל לֹ֥א יוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃

[Isaiah 45:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.45.20/)

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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:1022` of Mova's parse database.

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