--- title: Isaiah 21:4 (JPS 1917) — My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight tha… · tree and pragmatics description: My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling. Who acts: terror, I. 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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 (terror, I), 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:422 # text = My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling. 1 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 bewildered bewilder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 overwhelmed overwhelm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 twilight twilight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obl _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 longed long VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 17 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 trembling trembling NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bewilder** | present · passive | | My heart | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **overwhelm** | present · perfect | terror | me | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 3 | **long** | past | I | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **turn** | present · perfect · passive | | the twilight | | trembling | | for me | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into trembling=Trajectory | 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} תָּעָ֣ה לְבָבִ֔י פַּלָּצ֖וּת בִּֽעֲתָ֑תְנִי אֵ֚ת נֶ֣שֶׁף חִשְׁקִ֔י שָׂ֥ם לִ֖י לַחֲרָדָֽה׃ [Isaiah 21:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:422` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 21:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.421/) - next →: [Isaiah 21:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.423/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 21:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.4/)