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title: Isaiah 50:2 (JPS 1917) — Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wildernes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish become foul, because there is no water, and die for thirst. Who acts: I, fish, water, My. Isaiah 50:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 50:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 of 4

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Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish become foul, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

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**Who acts:** I, fish, water, My · **What happens:** dry up, make, become, be, die, rebuke · **To what, where:** sea, rebuke, rivers

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This is Isaiah 50:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 of 4 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 (I, fish, water, 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:1119
# text = Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish become foul, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	rebuke	rebuke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dry	dry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	foul	foul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry up** | present | I | the sea |  | My rebuke |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sea=Result |
| 2 | **make** | present | I | the rivers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Product |
| 3 | **become** | present | rivers's fish |  |  |  |  | foul *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **be** | present | no water |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | present | rivers's fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for thirst | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for thirst=Theme |
| 6 | **rebuke** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom rebuke «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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מַדּ֨וּעַ בָּ֜אתִי וְאֵ֣ין אִ֗ישׁ קָרָֽאתִי֮וְאֵ֣ין עוֹנֶה֒ הֲקָצ֨וֹר קָצְרָ֤ה יָדִי֙ מִפְּד֔וּת וְאִם־אֵֽין־בִּ֥י כֹ֖חַ לְהַצִּ֑יל הֵ֣ן בְּגַעֲרָתִ֞י אַחֲרִ֣יב יָ֗ם אָשִׂ֤ים נְהָרוֹת֙ מִדְבָּ֔ר תִּבְאַ֤שׁ דְּגָתָם֙ מֵאֵ֣ין מַ֔יִם וְתָמֹ֖ת בַּצָּמָֽא׃

[Isaiah 50:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1116/)
2. [Is My hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1117/)
3. [Or have I no power to deliver?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1118/)
4. **Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish become foul, because there is no water, and die for thirst.**

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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:1119` of Mova's parse database.

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