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title: Isaiah 21:6 (JPS 1917) — For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him dec… · tree and pragmatics
description: For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth! Who acts: Lord. Isaiah 21:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 21:6 · JPS 1917

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For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** say, go, set, let, declare, see · **To what, where:** watchman, Lord · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 21:6 · 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 (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:424
# text = For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seeth	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | the Lord |  |  |  |  | unto me; thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive |  | a watchman |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient watchman=Result |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | Lord |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive | Lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | present | Lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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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כִּ֣י כֹ֥ה אָמַ֛ר אֵלַ֖י אֲדֹנָ֑י לֵ֚ךְ הַעֲמֵ֣ד הַֽמְצַפֶּ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִרְאֶ֖ה יַגִּֽיד׃

[Isaiah 21:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.6/)

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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:424` 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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