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title: Isaiah 53:3 (JPS 1917) — He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted… · tree and pragmatics
description: He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Who acts: men, we. Isaiah 53:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 53:3 · JPS 1917

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He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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**Who acts:** men, we · **What happens:** despise, forsake, acquaint, hide, not esteem · **To what, where:** arm, face

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This is Isaiah 53:3 · 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 (men, 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:1175
# text = He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	despised	despise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	PRON	NN	_	3	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	despised	despise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	esteemed	esteem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **despise** | past · passive |  | arm |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **forsake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **acquaint** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with disease | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hide** | present | men | men's face |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent face=Patient from whom=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **despise** | past · passive |  | arm |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **esteem** | past | we | arm |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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נִבְזֶה֙ וַחֲדַ֣ל אִישִׁ֔ים אִ֥ישׁ מַכְאֹב֖וֹת וִיד֣וּעַ חֹ֑לִי וּכְמַסְתֵּ֤ר פָּנִים֙ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ נִבְזֶ֖ה וְלֹ֥א חֲשַׁבְנֻֽהוּ׃

[Isaiah 53:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.53.3/)

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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:1175` 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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