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title: Isaiah 49:1 (JPS 1917) — Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye peoples, from far: the LOR… · tree and pragmatics
description: Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye peoples, from far: the LORD hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother hath He made mention of my name; Who acts: you, ye, LORD, my. Isaiah 49:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 49:1 · JPS 1917

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Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye peoples, from far: the LORD hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother hath He made mention of my name;

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**Who acts:** you, ye, LORD, my · **What happens:** listen, hearken, people, call, make, mention · **To what, where:** me, womb, mention, bowels, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 49:1 · 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, ye, LORD, my), 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:1083
# text = Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye peoples, from far: the LORD hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother hath He made mention of my name;
1	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	vocative	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bowels	bowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
36	mention	mention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto me; isles *vocative* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hearken** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **people** |  | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | present · perfect | the LORD | me |  | the womb |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from womb=Source |
| 5 | **make** | present · perfect | LORD | mention of my name |  | the bowels of my mother |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent mention=Product from bowel=Material |
| 6 | **mention** |  |  | my name |  |  |  |  | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **name** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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שִׁמְע֤וּ אִיִּים֙ אֵלַ֔י וְהַקְשִׁ֥יבוּ לְאֻמִּ֖ים מֵרָח֑וֹק יְהוָה֙ מִבֶּ֣טֶן קְרָאָ֔נִי מִמְּעֵ֥י אִמִּ֖י הִזְכִּ֥יר שְׁמִֽי׃

[Isaiah 49:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.1/)

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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:1083` 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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