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title: Isaiah 55:6 (JPS 1917) — Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near; Who acts: ye, nation. Isaiah 55:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 55:6 · JPS 1917

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Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near;

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**Who acts:** ye, nation · **What happens:** seek, find, call, be · **To what, where:** LORD, nation, ye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 55:6 · 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 (ye, nation), 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:1210
# text = Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near;
1	Seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	near	near	ADJ	JJ	_	11	advcl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed hedge=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | infinitive | ye | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | may · passive |  | nation |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive |  | ye |  |  |  | upon nation | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | nation |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |

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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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דִּרְשׁ֥וּ יְהוָ֖ה בְּהִמָּצְא֑וֹ קְרָאֻ֖הוּ בִּֽהְיוֹת֥וֹ קָרֽוֹב׃

[Isaiah 55:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.55.6/)

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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:1210` 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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