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title: Isaiah 20:3 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia, Who acts: LORD, servant. Isaiah 20:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 20:3 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia,

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**Who acts:** LORD, servant · **What happens:** say, walk, be · **To what, where:** sign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 20:3 · 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, servant), 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:412
# text = And the LORD said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia,
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
7	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	Isaiah	Isaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
14	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	barefoot	barefoot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** | present · perfect | My servant |  |  |  |  | naked *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | My servant *not said here* | a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and Ethiopia |  |  | year |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלַ֛ךְ עַבְדִּ֥י יְשַׁעְיָ֖הוּ עָר֣וֹם וְיָחֵ֑ף שָׁלֹ֤שׁ שָׁנִים֙ א֣וֹת וּמוֹפֵ֔ת עַל־מִצְרַ֖יִם וְעַל־כּֽוּשׁ׃

[Isaiah 20:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.20.3/)

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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:412` 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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