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title: Isaiah 52:5 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore, what do I here, saith the LORD, seeing that My people… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore, what do I here, saith the LORD, seeing that My people is taken away for nought? Who acts: LORD. Isaiah 52:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 52:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Now therefore, what do I here, saith the LORD, seeing that My people is taken away for nought?

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** say, see, take away · **To what, where:** people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 52:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (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:1160
# text = Now therefore, what do I here, saith the LORD, seeing that My people is taken away for nought?
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	saith	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	nought	nought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take away** | present · passive |  | My people |  |  |  | for nought; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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וְעַתָּ֤ה מַה־לִּי־פֹה֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה כִּֽי־לֻקַּ֥ח עַמִּ֖י חִנָּ֑ם מֹשְׁלָ֤יו יְהֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה וְתָמִ֥יד כָּל־הַיּ֖וֹם שְׁמִ֥י מִנֹּאָֽץ׃

[Isaiah 52:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.52.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Now therefore, what do I here, saith the LORD, seeing that My people is taken away for nought?**
2. [They that rule over them do howl, saith the LORD, and My name continually all the day is blasphemed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1161/)

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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:1160` 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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