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title: Isaiah 18:4 (JPS 1917) — For thus hath the LORD said unto me: I will hold Me still, and I wil… · tree and pragmatics
description: For thus hath the LORD said unto me: I will hold Me still, and I will look on in My dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. Who acts: LORD, I, harvest. Isaiah 18:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 18:4 · JPS 1917

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For thus hath the LORD said unto me: I will hold Me still, and I will look on in My dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

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**Who acts:** LORD, I, harvest · **What happens:** say, hold, look on, cloud, heat · **To what, where:** Me, dew, heat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 18:4 · 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 (LORD, I, harvest), 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:379
# text = For thus hath the LORD said unto me: I will hold Me still, and I will look on in My dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADV	RP	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto me; thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hold** | future | I | Me |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **look on** | future | I |  |  |  |  | like clear heat in sunshine; like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest; in My dwelling place | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in place=Theme |
| 4 | **cloud** |  |  | dew |  | the heat of harvest |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient in=place |
| 5 | **heat** |  | harvest |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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כִּי֩ כֹ֨ה אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י אֶשְׁקֳטָ֖ה וְאַבִּ֣יטָה בִמְכוֹנִ֑י כְּחֹ֥ם צַח֙ עֲלֵי־א֔וֹר כְּעָ֥ב טַ֖ל בְּחֹ֥ם קָצִֽיר׃

[Isaiah 18:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.4/)

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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:379` 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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