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title: Isaiah 53:4 (JPS 1917) — Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Who acts: arm, we, our. Isaiah 53:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 53:4 · JPS 1917

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Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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**Who acts:** arm, we, our · **What happens:** bear, carry, esteem, smite, afflict, pain · **To what, where:** diseases, pains, arm

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This is Isaiah 53:4 · 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, our), 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:1176
# text = Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	esteem	esteem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	stricken	stricken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **bear** | past · do-support | arm | our diseases |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | past | arm | our pains |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |
| 3 | **esteem** | past · do-support | we | arm |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **smite** | participle | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of God | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **afflict** | participle | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **pain** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אָכֵ֤ן חֳלָיֵ֙נוּ֙ ה֣וּא נָשָׂ֔א וּמַכְאֹבֵ֖ינוּ סְבָלָ֑ם וַאֲנַ֣חְנוּ חֲשַׁבְנֻ֔הוּ נָג֛וּעַ מֻכֵּ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים וּמְעֻנֶּֽה׃

[Isaiah 53:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.53.4/)

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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:1176` 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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