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title: Isaiah 52:9 (JPS 1917) — Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem. Who acts: you, ye, LORD. Isaiah 52:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 52:9 · JPS 1917

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Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** you, ye, LORD · **What happens:** break, sing, waste, comfort, redeem · **To what, where:** joy, places, people, Jerusalem

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This is Isaiah 52:9 · 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 (you, ye, 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:1165
# text = Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem.
1	Break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	waste	waste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
20	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	redeemed	redeem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
26	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **break** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into joy *result*; forth *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into joy=Result |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **waste** | present | ye | places of Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 4 | **comfort** | present · perfect | the LORD | LORD's people |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 5 | **redeem** | present · perfect | LORD | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerusalem=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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פִּצְח֤וּ רַנְּנוּ֙ יַחְדָּ֔ו חָרְב֖וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם כִּֽי־נִחַ֤ם יְהוָה֙ עַמּ֔וֹ גָּאַ֖ל יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[Isaiah 52:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.52.9/)

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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:1165` 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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