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title: Isaiah 53:2 (JPS 1917) — For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry… · tree and pragmatics
description: For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty that we should delight in him. Who acts: arm, we. Isaiah 53:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 53:2 · JPS 1917

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For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty that we should delight in him.

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**Who acts:** arm, we · **What happens:** shoot up, have, look, delight · **To what, where:** form, beauty

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This is Isaiah 53:2 · 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 (arm, we), 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:1174
# text = For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty that we should delight in him.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sapling	sapling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
26	comeliness	comeliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	36	cc	_	_
36	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl:relcl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot up** | past | arm |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | arm | no form nor comeliness nor beauty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | should | we | no form nor comeliness nor beauty *not said here* |  |  |  | upon arm | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme form=Attribute |
| 4 | **delight** | should | we | beauty *not said here* |  |  |  | in arm | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus beauty=Experiencer |

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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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וַיַּ֨עַל כַּיּוֹנֵ֜ק לְפָנָ֗יו וְכַשֹּׁ֙רֶשׁ֙ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ צִיָּ֔ה לֹא־תֹ֥אַר ל֖וֹ וְלֹ֣א הָדָ֑ר וְנִרְאֵ֥הוּ וְלֹֽא־מַרְאֶ֖ה וְנֶחְמְדֵֽהוּ׃

[Isaiah 53:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.53.2/)

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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:1174` 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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