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title: Isaiah 7:11 (JPS 1917) — 'Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.' Who acts: you. Isaiah 7:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 7:11 · JPS 1917

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'Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ask, sign · **To what, where:** sign, thee, depth, LORD

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This is Isaiah 7:11 · 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 (you), 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:147
# text = 'Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	iobj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc:preconj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	above	above	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | a sign of the LORD | thee |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  | sign | the depth or the height |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 3 | **sign** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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שְׁאַל־לְךָ֣ א֔וֹת מֵעִ֖ם יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ הַעְמֵ֣ק שְׁאָ֔לָה א֖וֹ הַגְבֵּ֥הַּ לְמָֽעְלָה׃

[Isaiah 7:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.11/)

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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:147` 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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