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title: Isaiah 50:4 (JPS 1917) — The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I should know how to sustain with words him that is weary; He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught. Who acts: Lord GOD, I, GOD. Isaiah 50:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Isaiah 50:4 · JPS 1917

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The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I should know how to sustain with words him that is weary; He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

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**Who acts:** Lord GOD, I, GOD · **What happens:** give, teach, know, sustain, be, waken · **To what, where:** tongue, me, GOD, ear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 50:4 · 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 (Lord GOD, I, GOD), 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:1121
# text = The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I should know how to sustain with words him that is weary; He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sustain	sustain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	wakeneth	waken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	wakeneth	waken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
37	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect | the Lord GOD | the tongue of heavens | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient tongue=Theme |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the tongue of heavens |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **know** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sustain** | to-infinitive |  | GOD |  |  |  | with words | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **waken** | present | GOD |  |  |  | morning |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **waken** | present | GOD | mine ear |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 8 | **hear** | to-infinitive | GOD *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as heavens *= heaven* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֗ה נָ֤תַן לִי֙ לְשׁ֣וֹן לִמּוּדִ֔ים לָדַ֛עַת לָע֥וּת אֶת־יָעֵ֖ף דָּבָ֑ר יָעִ֣יר ׀ בַּבֹּ֣קֶר בַּבֹּ֗קֶר יָעִ֥יר לִי֙ אֹ֔זֶן לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ כַּלִּמּוּדִֽים׃

[Isaiah 50:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.4/)

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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:1121` 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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