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title: Isaiah 20:6 (JPS 1917) — And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day: Behold,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day: Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?' Who acts: inhabitant, we. Isaiah 20:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 20:6 · JPS 1917

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And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day: Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?'

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**Who acts:** inhabitant, we · **What happens:** say, be, flee, deliver, escape · **To what, where:** expectation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 20:6 · 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 (inhabitant, we), 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:415
# text = And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day: Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
6	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	expectation	expectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Assyria	Assyria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
38	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | the inhabitant of this coast land |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | our expectation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flee** | past | we |  |  |  |  | for help; whither *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **deliver** | to-infinitive · passive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the king of Assyria | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: from king=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **escape** | shall | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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וְ֠אָמַר יֹשֵׁ֨ב הָאִ֣י הַזֶּה֮ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַהוּא֒ הִנֵּה־כֹ֣ה מַבָּטֵ֗נוּ אֲשֶׁר־נַ֤סְנוּ שָׁם֙ לְעֶזְרָ֔ה לְהִ֨נָּצֵ֔ל מִפְּנֵ֖י מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֑וּר וְאֵ֖יךְ נִמָּלֵ֥ט אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃ס

[Isaiah 20:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.20.6/)

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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:415` 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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