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title: Isaiah 8:3 (JPS 1917) — Then said the LORD unto me: 'Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz. · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said the LORD unto me: 'Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz. Who acts: LORD. 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 2 of 2

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Then said the LORD unto me: 'Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** say, call, name · **To what, where:** name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 8:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (LORD), 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:165
# text = Then said the LORD unto me: 'Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	Maher	Maher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	shalal	shalal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	hashbaz	hashbaz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  | then | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive |  | LORD's name |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 3 | **name** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.164/)
2. **Then said the LORD unto me: 'Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz.**

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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:165` 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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