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title: Isaiah 54:4 (JPS 1917) — Neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame; for… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame; for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more. Who acts: thou. Isaiah 54:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 54:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame; for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** confound, not put, forget, remember, shame · **To what, where:** thou, shame, reproach, youth

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This is Isaiah 54:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (thou), 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:1189
# text = Neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame; for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.
1	Neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	confounded	confound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	reproach	reproach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	widowhood	widowhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
33	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
34	no	no	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confound** | infinitive · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **put** | shall · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | to shame | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **forget** | shall | thou | the shame of thy youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **remember** | shall | thou | the reproach of thy widowhood |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reproach=Theme |
| 5 | **shame** |  |  | thy youth |  |  |  |  | nom shame «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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אַל־תִּֽירְאִי֙ כִּי־לֹ֣א תֵב֔וֹשִׁי וְאַל־תִּכָּלְמִ֖י כִּ֣י לֹ֣א תַחְפִּ֑ירִי כִּ֣י בֹ֤שֶׁת עֲלוּמַ֙יִךְ֙ תִּשְׁכָּ֔חִי וְחֶרְפַּ֥ת אַלְמְנוּתַ֖יִךְ לֹ֥א תִזְכְּרִי־עֽוֹד׃

[Isaiah 54:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.54.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1188/)
2. **Neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame; for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.**

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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:1189` 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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