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title: Isaiah 6:5 (JPS 1917) — Then said I: Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of uncle… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said I: Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Who acts: I, Woe, eyes. Isaiah 6:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 6:5 · JPS 1917

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Then said I: Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

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**Who acts:** I, Woe, eyes · **What happens:** say, be, dwell, see · **To what, where:** me, man, midst, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 6:5 · 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 (I, Woe, eyes), 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:126
# text = Then said I: Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Woe	Woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	ccomp	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	undone	undo	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Woe | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | undo *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | a man |  |  |  | of unclean lips | tree rules |
| 5 | **dwell** | present | I |  |  | the midst of a people of unclean lips |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |
| 6 | **see** | present · perfect | mine eyes | the King |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=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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וָאֹמַ֞ר אֽוֹי־לִ֣י כִֽי־נִדְמֵ֗יתִי כִּ֣י אִ֤ישׁ טְמֵֽא־שְׂפָתַ֙יִם֙ אָנֹ֔כִי וּבְתוֹךְ֙ עַם־טְמֵ֣א שְׂפָתַ֔יִם אָנֹכִ֖י יוֹשֵׁ֑ב כִּ֗י אֶת־הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת רָא֥וּ עֵינָֽי׃

[Isaiah 6:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.6.5/)

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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:126` 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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