--- title: Isaiah 49:19 (JPS 1917) — For thy waste and thy desolate places and thy land that hath been de… · tree and pragmatics description: For thy waste and thy desolate places and thy land that hath been destroyed — surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. Who acts: thou, inhabitants. 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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 (thou, inhabitants), 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:1103 # text = For thy waste and thy desolate places and thy land that hath been destroyed — surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 desolate desolate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 — - PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 16 surely surely ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 17 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 18 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 19 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 strait strait ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 obj _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 35 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 22 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **destroy** | present · perfect · passive | | thy land | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **is** | shall | thou | | | | now | for thy waste and thy desolate places and thy land; for the inhabitants; strait, surely *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **swallow up** | past | | thee | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | | 4 | **is** | shall | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | 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} כִּ֤י חָרְבֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ וְשֹׁ֣מְמֹתַ֔יִךְ וְאֶ֖רֶץ הֲרִֽסֻתֵ֑יךְ כִּ֤י עַתָּה֙ תֵּצְרִ֣י מִיּוֹשֵׁ֔ב וְרָחֲק֖וּ מְבַלְּעָֽיִךְ׃ [Isaiah 49:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1103` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 49:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1102/) - next →: [Isaiah 49:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1104/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 49:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.19/)