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title: Isaiah 18:2 (JPS 1917) — That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon… · tree and pragmatics
description: That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Who acts: That. Isaiah 18:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 18:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters!

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** ambassadors, vessels

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This is Isaiah 18:2 · 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 (That), 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:376
# text = That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters!
1	That	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sendeth	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	papyrus	papyrus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=excl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | That | ambassadors |  | vessels of papyrus upon the waters |  | by the sea | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme in vessel=Destination |

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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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הַשֹּׁלֵ֨חַ בַּיָּ֜ם צִירִ֗ים וּבִכְלֵי־גֹמֶא֮ עַל־פְּנֵי־מַיִם֒ לְכ֣וּ ׀ מַלְאָכִ֣ים קַלִּ֗ים אֶל־גּוֹי֙ מְמֻשָּׁ֣ךְ וּמוֹרָ֔ט אֶל־עַ֥ם נוֹרָ֖א מִן־ה֣וּא וָהָ֑לְאָה גּ֚וֹי קַו־קָ֣ו וּמְבוּסָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־בָּזְא֥וּ נְהָרִ֖ים אַרְצֽוֹ׃

[Isaiah 18:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters!**
2. [Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.377/)

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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:376` 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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