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title: Isaiah 66:8 (JPS 1917) — Is a nation brought forth at once? · tree and pragmatics
description: Is a nation brought forth at once? Isaiah 66:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 66:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 of 5

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Is a nation brought forth at once?

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**What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** nation

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This is Isaiah 66:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 of 5 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: 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:1414
# text = Is a nation brought forth at once?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present · passive |  | a nation |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |

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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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מִֽי־שָׁמַ֣ע כָּזֹ֗את מִ֤י רָאָה֙ כָּאֵ֔לֶּה הֲי֤וּחַל אֶ֙רֶץ֙ בְּי֣וֹם אֶחָ֔ד אִם־יִוָּ֥לֵֽד גּ֖וֹי פַּ֣עַם אֶחָ֑ת כִּֽי־חָ֛לָה גַּם־יָלְדָ֥ה צִיּ֖וֹן אֶת־בָּנֶֽיהָ׃

[Isaiah 66:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.66.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Who hath heard such a thing?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1411/)
2. [Who hath seen such things?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1412/)
3. [Is a land born in one day?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1413/)
4. **Is a nation brought forth at once?**
5. [For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1415/)

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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:1414` 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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