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title: Isaiah 58:3 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and Thou takest no knowledge?'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and Thou takest no knowledge?' — Behold, in the day of your fast ye pursue your business, and exact all your labours. Who acts: we, Thou, ye, your. Isaiah 58:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 58:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and Thou takest no knowledge?' — Behold, in the day of your fast ye pursue your business, and exact all your labours.

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**Who acts:** we, Thou, ye, your · **What happens:** afflict, take, pursue, exact, fast · **To what, where:** soul, knowledge, business, labours

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This is Isaiah 58:3 · 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 (we, Thou, ye, your), 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:1260
# text = Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and Thou takest no knowledge?' — Behold, in the day of your fast ye pursue your business, and exact all your labours.
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	takest	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
16	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fast	fast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
25	pursue	pursue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	exact	exact	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	labours	labour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **afflict** | present · perfect | we | our soul |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | present | Thou | no knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme |
| 3 | **pursue** | present | ye | your business |  |  | day |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme |
| 4 | **exact** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | your labours |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=Theme |
| 5 | **fast** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom fast «act intransitive»: 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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לָ֤מָּה צַּ֙מְנוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א רָאִ֔יתָ עִנִּ֥ינוּ נַפְשֵׁ֖נוּ וְלֹ֣א תֵדָ֑ע הֵ֣ן בְּי֤וֹם צֹֽמְכֶם֙ תִּמְצְאוּ־חֵ֔פֶץ וְכָל־עַצְּבֵיכֶ֖ם תִּנְגֹּֽשׂוּ׃

[Isaiah 58:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. ['Wherefore have we fasted, and Thou seest not?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1259/)
2. **Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and Thou takest no knowledge?' — Behold, in the day of your fast ye pursue your business, and exact all your labours.**

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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:1260` 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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