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title: Isaiah 47:12 (JPS 1917) — Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sor… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Who acts: you, thou, thine. Isaiah 47:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Isaiah 47:12 · JPS 1917

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Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

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**Who acts:** you, thou, thine · **What happens:** stand, labour, be, profit, enchant · **To what, where:** youth

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This is Isaiah 47:12 · 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, thou, thine), 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:1054
# text = Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
1	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sorceries	sorcery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	laboured	labour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
27	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	profit	profit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
37	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	prevail	prevail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | with thine enchantments and the multitude of thy sorceries | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **labour** | present · perfect | thou |  |  | thy youth |  | wherein *property* | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **profit** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V»: agent=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** | may · infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | prevail *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **enchant** |  | thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom enchantment «feeling 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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עִמְדִי־נָ֤א בַחֲבָרַ֙יִךְ֙ וּבְרֹ֣ב כְּשָׁפַ֔יִךְ בַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר יָגַ֖עַתְּ מִנְּעוּרָ֑יִךְ אוּלַ֛י תּוּכְלִ֥י הוֹעִ֖יל אוּלַ֥י תַּעֲרֽוֹצִי׃

[Isaiah 47:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.12/)

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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:1054` 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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