--- title: Isaiah 45:21 (JPS 1917) — Declare ye, and bring them near, yea, let them take counsel together… · tree and pragmatics description: Declare ye, and bring them near, yea, let them take counsel together: Who hath announced this from ancient time, and declared it of old? Who acts: ye, nations. 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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 (ye, nations), 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:1023 # text = Declare ye, and bring them near, yea, let them take counsel together: Who hath announced this from ancient time, and declared it of old? 1 Declare declare VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 bring bring VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 near near ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 yea yea INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 together together ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 Who who PRON WP PronType=Int 19 nsubj _ _ 18 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 announced announce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 parataxis _ _ 20 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 obj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 old old NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive | ye | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bring** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | nations *= nation* | | | | near *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | nations *= nation* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | nations *= nation* *not said here* | counsel | | | | together *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | | 5 | **announce** *speech: other* | present · perfect | | this | | | time | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | | 6 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | | counsel | | | | of old | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | 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} הַגִּ֣ידוּ וְהַגִּ֔ישׁוּ אַ֥ף יִֽוָּעֲצ֖וּ יַחְדָּ֑ו מִ֣י הִשְׁמִיעַ֩ זֹ֨את מִקֶּ֜דֶם מֵאָ֣ז הִגִּידָ֗הּ הֲל֨וֹא אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ וְאֵֽין־ע֤וֹד אֱלֹהִים֙ מִבַּלְעָדַ֔י אֵֽל־צַדִּ֣יק וּמוֹשִׁ֔יעַ אַ֖יִן זוּלָתִֽי׃ [Isaiah 45:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.45.21/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Declare ye, and bring them near, yea, let them take counsel together: Who hath announced this from ancient time, and declared it of old?** 2. [Have not I the LORD?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1024/) 3. [And there is no God else beside Me, a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1025/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1023` 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: [Isaiah 45:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1022/) - next →: [Isaiah 45:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1024/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 45:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.45.21/)