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title: Isaiah 8:3 (JPS 1917) — And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. · tree and pragmatics
description: And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Who acts: I, prey. Isaiah 8:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 8:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son.

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**Who acts:** I, prey · **What happens:** go, conceive, bear · **To what, where:** son

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This is Isaiah 8:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, prey), 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:164
# text = And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prophetess	prophetess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go** | past | I |  |  |  |  | unto the prophetess | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **conceive** | past | prey |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bear** | past | I *not said here* | a son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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וָאֶקְרַב֙ אֶל־הַנְּבִיאָ֔ה וַתַּ֖הַר וַתֵּ֣לֶד בֵּ֑ן וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י קְרָ֣א שְׁמ֔וֹ מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז׃

[Isaiah 8:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son.**
2. [Then said the LORD unto me: 'Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.165/)

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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:164` 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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