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title: Isaiah 46:5 (JPS 1917) — To whom will ye liken Me, and make Me equal, and compare Me, that we… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom will ye liken Me, and make Me equal, and compare Me, that we may be like? Who acts: ye, we. Isaiah 46:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 46:5 · JPS 1917

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To whom will ye liken Me, and make Me equal, and compare Me, that we may be like?

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**Who acts:** ye, we · **What happens:** liken, make, compare, be · **To what, where:** Me

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This is Isaiah 46:5 · 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 (ye, we), 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:1034
# text = To whom will ye liken Me, and make Me equal, and compare Me, that we may be like?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obl	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	liken	liken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **liken** | future | ye | Me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | Me |  |  |  | equal *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 3 | **compare** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | Me |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | may | we |  |  |  |  | like *property* | tree rules |

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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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לְמִ֥י תְדַמְי֖וּנִי וְתַשְׁו֑וּ וְתַמְשִׁל֖וּנִי וְנִדְמֶֽה׃

[Isaiah 46:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.5/)

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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:1034` 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.

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