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title: Isaiah 66:8 (JPS 1917) — For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. · tree and pragmatics
description: For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. Who acts: Zion. 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 5 of 5

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For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

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**Who acts:** Zion · **What happens:** travail, bring · **To what, where:** children

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This is Isaiah 66:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 5 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: who acts (Zion), 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:1415
# text = For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	travailed	travail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **travail** | past | Zion |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Zion |  | Zion's children |  |  | forth, soon *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination |

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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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1414/)
5. **For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.**

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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:1415` 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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