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title: Isaiah 59:11 (JPS 1917) — We all growl like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for righ… · tree and pragmatics
description: We all growl like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for right, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. Who acts: We, none, right. Isaiah 59:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 59:11 · JPS 1917

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We all growl like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for right, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

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**Who acts:** We, none, right · **What happens:** growl, mourn, look, be

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This is Isaiah 59:11 · 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 (We, none, right), 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:1284
# text = We all growl like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for right, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	growl	growl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	mourn	mourn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	sore	sore	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	salvation	salvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	off	off	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=express, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **growl** | present | We |  |  |  |  | like bears; all *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mourn** | present | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like doves; sore *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **look** | present | we |  |  |  |  | for right; for salvation | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for right=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | present | none |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | right |  |  |  |  | from us; far, off *property* | 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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נֶהֱמֶ֤ה כַדֻּבִּים֙ כֻּלָּ֔נוּ וְכַיּוֹנִ֖ים הָגֹ֣ה נֶהְגֶּ֑ה נְקַוֶּ֤ה לַמִּשְׁפָּט֙ וָאַ֔יִן לִֽישׁוּעָ֖ה רָחֲקָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃

[Isaiah 59:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.11/)

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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:1284` 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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