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title: Isaiah 51:3 (JPS 1917) — For the LORD hath comforted Zion; He hath comforted all her waste pl… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the LORD hath comforted Zion; He hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Who acts: LORD. Isaiah 51:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tr
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# Isaiah 51:3 · JPS 1917

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For the LORD hath comforted Zion; He hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** comfort, make, find · **To what, where:** Zion, waste places, wilderness, joy

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This is Isaiah 51:3 · 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), 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:1133
# text = For the LORD hath comforted Zion; He hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	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	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Eden	Eden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
34	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
40	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	thanksgiving	thanksgiving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **comfort** | present · perfect | the LORD | Zion |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus zion=Experiencer |
| 2 | **comfort** | present · perfect | LORD | Zion's waste places |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus place=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | LORD *not said here* | Zion's wilderness and Zion's desert like the garden of the LORD |  |  |  | like Eden | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wilderness=Product |
| 4 | **find** | shall · passive |  | joy and gladness |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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כִּֽי־נִחַ֨ם יְהוָ֜ה צִיּ֗וֹן נִחַם֙ כָּל־חָרְבֹתֶ֔יהָ וַיָּ֤שֶׂם מִדְבָּרָהּ֙ כְּעֵ֔דֶן וְעַרְבָתָ֖הּ כְּגַן־יְהוָ֑ה שָׂשׂ֤וֹן וְשִׂמְחָה֙ יִמָּ֣צֵא בָ֔הּ תּוֹדָ֖ה וְק֥וֹל זִמְרָֽה׃ס

[Isaiah 51:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.3/)

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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:1133` 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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