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title: Isaiah 58:5 (JPS 1917) — Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Who acts: I, man. Isaiah 58:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 58:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul?

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** be, choose, afflict · **To what, where:** such fast, soul

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This is Isaiah 58:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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, man), 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:1262
# text = Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fast	fast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	afflict	afflict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the such fast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | present · perfect | I | the such fast |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **afflict** | to-infinitive | a man | man's soul |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer |

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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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הֲכָזֶ֗ה יִֽהְיֶה֙ צ֣וֹם אֶבְחָרֵ֔הוּ י֛וֹם עַנּ֥וֹת אָדָ֖ם נַפְשׁ֑וֹ הֲלָכֹ֨ף כְּאַגְמֹ֜ן רֹאשׁ֗וֹ וְשַׂ֤ק וָאֵ֙פֶר֙ יַצִּ֔יעַ הֲלָזֶה֙ תִּקְרָא־צ֔וֹם וְי֥וֹם רָצ֖וֹן לַיהוָֽה׃

[Isaiah 58:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul?**
2. [Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1263/)
3. [Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1264/)

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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:1262` 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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