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title: Isaiah 47:1 (JPS 1917) — Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on… · tree and pragmatics
description: Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Who acts: you. Isaiah 47:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 47:1 · JPS 1917

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Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come down, sit, call · **To what, where:** dust, ground, thou · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 47:1 · 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), 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:1043
# text = Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	virgin	virgin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Chaldeans	chaldean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
33	no	no	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
37	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | virgin daughter of Babylon *vocative*; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the dust |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dust=Location |
| 3 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  | without a throne; daughter of the Chaldeans *vocative* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
| 4 | **call** | shall · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | tender *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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רְדִ֣י ׀ וּשְׁבִ֣י עַל־עָפָ֗ר בְּתוּלַת֙ בַּת־בָּבֶ֔ל שְׁבִי־לָאָ֥רֶץ אֵין־כִּסֵּ֖א בַּת־כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים כִּ֣י לֹ֤א תוֹסִ֙יפִי֙ יִקְרְאוּ־לָ֔ךְ רַכָּ֖ה וַעֲנֻגָּֽה׃

[Isaiah 47:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.1/)

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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:1043` 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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