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title: Isaiah 48:20 (JPS 1917) — Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with a voice o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye: 'The LORD hath redeemed His servant Jacob. Who acts: ye, LORD. Isaiah 48:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 48:20 · JPS 1917

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Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye: 'The LORD hath redeemed His servant Jacob.

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**Who acts:** ye, LORD · **What happens:** go, flee, declare, tell, utter, say · **To what, where:** Babylon, Chaldeans, this, singing, end, servant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 48:20 · 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 (ye, LORD), 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:1080
# text = Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye: 'The LORD hath redeemed His servant Jacob.
1	Go	go	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	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Chaldeans	Chaldeans	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	singing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
34	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
35	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
38	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	redeemed	redeem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	ccomp	_	_
42	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | ye |  |  | Babylon |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from babylon=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **flee** | infinitive | ye |  |  | the Chaldeans |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from chaldeans=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | with a voice of singing | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient |
| 5 | **utter** *speech: other* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | singing *= sing* | the end of the earth |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to end=Recipient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **redeem** | present · perfect | the LORD | LORD's servant |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |

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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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צְא֣וּ מִבָּבֶל֮ בִּרְח֣וּ מִכַּשְׂדִּים֒ בְּק֣וֹל רִנָּ֗ה הַגִּ֤ידוּ הַשְׁמִ֙יעוּ֙ זֹ֔את הוֹצִיא֖וּהָ עַד־קְצֵ֣ה הָאָ֑רֶץ אִמְר֕וּ גָּאַ֥ל יְהוָ֖ה עַבְדּ֥וֹ יַעֲקֹֽב׃

[Isaiah 48:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.48.20/)

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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:1080` 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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