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title: Isaiah 50:8 (JPS 1917) — He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stan… · tree and pragmatics
description: He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand up together; who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Who acts: GOD, us. Isaiah 50:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 50:8 · JPS 1917

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He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand up together; who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

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**Who acts:** GOD, us · **What happens:** be, justify, contend, let, stand up, come · **To what, where:** me, us, adversary, GOD

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This is Isaiah 50:8 · 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 (GOD, us), 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:1125
# text = He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand up together; who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	near	near	ADJ	JJ	_	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
5	justifieth	justify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	contend	contend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	adversary	adversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	near	near	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | GOD |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **justify** *speech: other* | present |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 3 | **contend** | future |  |  |  |  |  | with me | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand up** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | mine adversary |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **let** | infinitive |  | GOD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **come** | infinitive | GOD *not said here* |  | me |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |

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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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קָרוֹב֙ מַצְדִּיקִ֔י מִֽי־יָרִ֥יב אִתִּ֖י נַ֣עַמְדָה יָּ֑חַד מִֽי־בַ֥עַל מִשְׁפָּטִ֖י יִגַּ֥שׁ אֵלָֽי׃

[Isaiah 50:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.8/)

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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:1125` 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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