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title: Isaiah 58:6 (JPS 1917) — Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the fetters of wic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the fetters of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Who acts: this, I, oppressed, ye. Isaiah 58:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 58:6 · JPS 1917

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Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the fetters of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

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**Who acts:** this, I, oppressed, ye · **What happens:** not be, choose, loose, undo, let, go · **To what, where:** fast, fetters, bands, yoke

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This is Isaiah 58:6 · 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 (this, I, oppressed, ye), 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:1265
# text = Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the fetters of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fast	fast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	loose	loose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	appos	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fetters	fetter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	oppressed	oppress	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nsubj	_	_
37	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | this | the fast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | present · perfect | I | the fast |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **loose** | to-infinitive |  | the fetters of wickedness |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fetter=Patient |
| 4 | **undo** | to-infinitive |  | the bands of the yoke |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient |
| 5 | **let** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | the oppressed |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **break** | present | ye | every yoke |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yoke=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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הֲל֣וֹא זֶה֮ צ֣וֹם אֶבְחָרֵהוּ֒ פַּתֵּ֙חַ֙ חַרְצֻבּ֣וֹת רֶ֔שַׁע הַתֵּ֖ר אֲגֻדּ֣וֹת מוֹטָ֑ה וְשַׁלַּ֤ח רְצוּצִים֙ חָפְשִׁ֔ים וְכָל־מוֹטָ֖ה תְּנַתֵּֽקוּ׃

[Isaiah 58:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.6/)

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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:1265` 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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