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title: Isaiah 19:12 (JPS 1917) — And let them tell thee now; and let them know what the LORD of hosts… · tree and pragmatics
description: And let them tell thee now; and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt. Who acts: you, counsellors, LORD. Isaiah 19:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 19:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And let them tell thee now; and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.

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**Who acts:** you, counsellors, LORD · **What happens:** let, tell, know, purpose · **To what, where:** counsellors, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 19:12 · 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 (you, counsellors, 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:396
# text = And let them tell thee now; and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	iobj	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	purposed	purpose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
19	concerning	concern	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | counsellors *= counsellor* |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | counsellors *= counsellor* *not said here* |  | thee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | counsellors *= counsellor* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | infinitive | counsellors *= counsellor* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **purpose** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  | concern Egypt | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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אַיָּם֙ אֵפ֣וֹא חֲכָמֶ֔יךָ וְיַגִּ֥ידוּ נָ֖א לָ֑ךְ וְיֵ֣דְע֔וּ מַה־יָּעַ֛ץ יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת עַל־מִצְרָֽיִם׃

[Isaiah 19:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Where are they, then, thy wise men?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.395/)
2. **And let them tell thee now; and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.**

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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:396` 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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