--- title: Isaiah 59:10 (JPS 1917) — We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, as they that have no eyes… · tree and pragmatics description: We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, as they that have no eyes do we grope; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; we are in dark places like the dead. Who acts: We, lips. 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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, lips), 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:1283 # text = We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, as they that have no eyes do we grope; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; we are in dark places like the dead. 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grope grope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 blind blind NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 yea yea INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grope grope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 stumble stumble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 noonday noonday NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 twilight twilight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grope** | present | We | | | | | for the wall; like the blind | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for wall=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | | no eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 3 | **grope** | present · do-support | lips *= lip* | | | | | | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stumble** | present | we | | | noonday | | as the twilight | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at noonday=Trajectory | | 5 | **is** | present | we | | | dark places | | like the dead | tree rules | 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} נְגַֽשְׁשָׁ֤ה כַֽעִוְרִים֙ קִ֔יר וּכְאֵ֥ין עֵינַ֖יִם נְגַשֵּׁ֑שָׁה כָּשַׁ֤לְנוּ בַֽצָּהֳרַ֙יִם֙ כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁף בָּאַשְׁמַנִּ֖ים כַּמֵּתִֽים׃ [Isaiah 59:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1283` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 59:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1282/) - next →: [Isaiah 59:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1284/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 59:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.10/)