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title: Isaiah 59:20 (JPS 1917) — And a redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from trans… · tree and pragmatics
description: And a redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. Who acts: redeemer, LORD. Isaiah 59:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 59:20 · JPS 1917

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And a redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

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**Who acts:** redeemer, LORD · **What happens:** come, turn, say · **To what, where:** Zion, transgression · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 59:20 · 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 (redeemer, LORD), 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:1294
# text = And a redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	redeemer	redeemer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	transgression	transgression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | a redeemer |  |  | Zion |  | unto coat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to zion=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **turn** | present |  |  |  | transgression |  | in Jacob | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from transgression=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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וּבָ֤א לְצִיּוֹן֙ גּוֹאֵ֔ל וּלְשָׁבֵ֥י פֶ֖שַׁע בְּיַֽעֲקֹ֑ב נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָֽה׃

[Isaiah 59:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.20/)

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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:1294` 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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