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title: Isaiah 8:2 (JPS 1917) — and I will take unto Me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the prie… · tree and pragmatics
description: and I will take unto Me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.' Who acts: I. Isaiah 8:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 8:2 · JPS 1917

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and I will take unto Me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, record · **To what, where:** faithful witnesses

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This is Isaiah 8:2 · 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 (I), 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:163
# text = and I will take unto Me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	witnesses	witness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	record	record	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Uriah	Uriah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Zechariah	Zechariah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Jeberechiah	Jeberechiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **take** | future | I | faithful witnesses |  |  |  | unto Me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Theme |
| 2 | **record** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | faithful witnesses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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וְאָעִ֣ידָה לִּ֔י עֵדִ֖ים נֶאֱמָנִ֑ים אֵ֚ת אוּרִיָּ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְאֶת־זְכַרְיָ֖הוּ בֶּ֥ן יְבֶרֶכְיָֽהוּ׃

[Isaiah 8:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.2/)

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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:163` 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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