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title: Isaiah 58:9 (JPS 1917) — Then shalt thou call, and the LORD will answer; thou shalt cry, and… · tree and pragmatics
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# Isaiah 58:9 · JPS 1917

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Then shalt thou call, and the LORD will answer; thou shalt cry, and He will say: 'Here I am.' If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedness;

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD, I · **What happens:** call, answer, cry, say, be, take away · **To what, where:** yoke, midst, wickedness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 58:9 · 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 (thou, LORD, I), 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:1268
# text = Then shalt thou call, and the LORD will answer; thou shalt cry, and He will say: 'Here I am.' If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedness;
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	ccomp	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
27	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	appos	_	_
41	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	conj	_	_
48	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **call** | shall | thou |  |  |  | then |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | future | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **take away** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | the yoke |  | the midst of thee |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent yoke=Theme from midst=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **put** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the finger; forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | thou *not said here* | wickedness |  |  |  |  | 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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אָ֤ז תִּקְרָא֙ וַיהוָ֣ה יַעֲנֶ֔ה תְּשַׁוַּ֖ע וְיֹאמַ֣ר הִנֵּ֑נִי אִם־תָּסִ֤יר מִתּֽוֹכְךָ֙ מוֹטָ֔ה שְׁלַ֥ח אֶצְבַּ֖ע וְדַבֶּר־אָֽוֶן׃

[Isaiah 58:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.9/)

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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:1268` 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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