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title: Isaiah 51:9 (JPS 1917) — Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon? · tree and pragmatics
description: Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon? Who acts: thou, that. Isaiah 51:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 51:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?

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**Who acts:** thou, that · **What happens:** not be, hew, pierce · **To what, where:** strength, Rahab, pieces, dragon

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This is Isaiah 51:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (thou, that), 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:1140
# text = Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?
1	Art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hewed	hew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	Rahab	Rahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **not** **is a** | present | thou | strength |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hew** | past |  | Rahab |  | pieces |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rahab=Patient |
| 3 | **pierce** | past | that | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent dragon=Instrument |

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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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עוּרִ֨י עוּרִ֤י לִבְשִׁי־עֹז֙ זְר֣וֹעַ יְהוָ֔ה ע֚וּרִי כִּ֣ימֵי קֶ֔דֶם דֹּר֖וֹת עוֹלָמִ֑ים הֲל֥וֹא אַתְּ־הִ֛יא הַמַּחְצֶ֥בֶת רַ֖הַב מְחוֹלֶ֥לֶת תַּנִּֽין׃

[Isaiah 51:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1139/)
2. **Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?**

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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:1140` 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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