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title: Isaiah 52:8 (JPS 1917) — Hark, thy watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hark, thy watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see, eye to eye, the LORD returning to Zion. Who acts: feet, LORD. Isaiah 52:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 52:8 · JPS 1917

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Hark, thy watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see, eye to eye, the LORD returning to Zion.

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**Who acts:** feet, LORD · **What happens:** lift up, sing, see, return · **To what, where:** voice, LORD, Zion

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This is Isaiah 52:8 · 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 (feet, 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:1164
# text = Hark, thy watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see, eye to eye, the LORD returning to Zion.
1	Hark	hark	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	watchmen	watchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	vocative	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lift	lift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
28	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | present | feet *= foot* | the voice |  |  |  | thy watchmen *vocative* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · do-support | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | shall | feet *= foot* | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus |
| 4 | **return** | gerund | the LORD *not said here* |  | Zion |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to zion=Result |

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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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ק֥וֹל צֹפַ֛יִךְ נָ֥שְׂאוּ ק֖וֹל יַחְדָּ֣ו יְרַנֵּ֑נוּ כִּ֣י עַ֤יִן בְּעַ֙יִן֙ יִרְא֔וּ בְּשׁ֥וּב יְהוָ֖ה צִיּֽוֹן׃

[Isaiah 52:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.52.8/)

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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:1164` 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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