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title: Isaiah 49:20 (JPS 1917) — The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears: 'The pl… · tree and pragmatics
description: The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears: 'The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.' Who acts: children, place, I, thy. Isaiah 49:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 49:20 · JPS 1917

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The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears: 'The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.'

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**Who acts:** children, place, I, thy · **What happens:** say, be, give, dwell, bereave · **To what, where:** ears, place, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 49:20 · 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 (children, place, I, thy), 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:1104
# text = The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears: 'The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.'
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bereavement	bereavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	strait	strait	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | the children of thy bereavement |  |  | thine ears | yet |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in ear=Manner |
| 2 | **is** | present | the place |  |  |  |  | for me; strait *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive |  | place | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient place=Theme |
| 4 | **dwell** | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bereave** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom bereavement «state 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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ע֚וֹד יֹאמְר֣וּ בְאָזְנַ֔יִךְ בְּנֵ֖י שִׁכֻּלָ֑יִךְ צַר־לִ֥י הַמָּק֖וֹם גְּשָׁה־לִּ֥י וְאֵשֵֽׁבָה׃

[Isaiah 49:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.20/)

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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:1104` 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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