--- title: Isaiah 7:14 (JPS 1917) — Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: behold, the young… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Who acts: Lord, young woman. 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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 (Lord, young woman), 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:150 # text = Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 Himself himself PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 11 behold behold INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 conceive conceive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 Immanuel Immanuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | shall | the Lord LORD | a sign | you | | | therefore *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sign=Theme | | 2 | **conceive** | shall | the young woman | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bear** | infinitive | the young woman *not said here* | a son | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 4 | **call** | shall | the Lord LORD *not said here* | LORD's name | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | | 5 | **name** | | LORD | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} לָ֠כֵן יִתֵּ֨ן אֲדֹנָ֥י ה֛וּא לָכֶ֖ם א֑וֹת הִנֵּ֣ה הָעַלְמָ֗ה הָרָה֙ וְיֹלֶ֣דֶת בֵּ֔ן וְקָרָ֥את שְׁמ֖וֹ עִמָּ֥נוּ אֵֽל עִמָּ֥נוּ אֵֽל׃ [Isaiah 7:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:150` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 7:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.149/) - next →: [Isaiah 7:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.151/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 7:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.14/)