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title: Isaiah 21:7 (JPS 1917) — And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a tr… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed. Who acts: Lord. Isaiah 21:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 21:7 · JPS 1917

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And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** see, hearken · **To what, where:** troop

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This is Isaiah 21:7 · 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:425
# text = And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seeth	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- 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 | **see** | present | Lord | a troop and horsemen by pairs and a troop of asses and a troop of camels |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer troop=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hearken** | shall | Lord |  |  |  |  | with much heed; diligently *property* | 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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וְרָ֣אָה רֶ֗כֶב צֶ֚מֶד פָּֽרָשִׁ֔ים רֶ֥כֶב חֲמ֖וֹר רֶ֣כֶב גָּמָ֑ל וְהִקְשִׁ֥יב קֶ֖שֶׁב רַב־קָֽשֶׁב׃

[Isaiah 21:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.7/)

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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:425` 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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