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title: Isaiah 21:2 (JPS 1917) — Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media! · tree and pragmatics
description: Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media! Who acts: you. Isaiah 21:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 21:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3

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Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go up, besiege

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This is Isaiah 21:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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), 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:419
# text = Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media!
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	Elam	Elam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
7	besiege	besiege	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	Media	media	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Elam *vocative* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **besiege** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | Media *vocative* | 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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חָז֥וּת קָשָׁ֖ה הֻגַּד־לִ֑י הַבּוֹגֵ֤ד ׀ בּוֹגֵד֙ וְהַשּׁוֹדֵ֣ד ׀ שׁוֹדֵ֔ד עֲלִ֤י עֵילָם֙ צוּרִ֣י מָדַ֔י כָּל־אַנְחָתָ֖ה הִשְׁבַּֽתִּי׃

[Isaiah 21:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [A grievous vision is declared unto me: 'The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.418/)
2. **Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media!**
3. [All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.420/)

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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:419` 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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