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title: Isaiah 20:2 (JPS 1917) — at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go,… · tree and pragmatics
description: at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.' And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. Who acts: LORD. Isaiah 20:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 20:2 · JPS 1917

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at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.' And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** speak, say, go, loose, put, do · **To what, where:** sackcloth, loins, shoe, foot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 20:2 · 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), 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:411
# text = at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.' And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Isaiah	Isaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Amoz	Amoz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	loose	loose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	loins	loin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
30	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	off	off	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
38	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
44	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	barefoot	barefoot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the LORD |  |  |  | time | by Isaiah | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **loose** | infinitive |  | the sackcloth |  | thy loins |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sackcloth=Patient |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive |  | thy shoe |  | thy foot |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoe=Goal |
| 6 | **do** | past | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **walk** | gerund | LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  | naked *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֗יא דִּבֶּ֣ר יְהוָה֮ בְּיַ֣ד יְשַׁעְיָ֣הוּ בֶן־אָמוֹץ֮ לֵאמֹר֒ לֵ֗ךְ וּפִתַּחְתָּ֤ הַשַּׂק֙ מֵעַ֣ל מָתְנֶ֔יךָ וְנַעַלְךָ֥ תַחֲלֹ֖ץ מֵעַ֣ל רַגְלֶ֑יךָ וַיַּ֣עַשׂ כֵּ֔ן הָלֹ֖ךְ עָר֥וֹם וְיָחֵֽף׃ס

[Isaiah 20:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.20.2/)

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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:411` 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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