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title: Isaiah 21:11 (JPS 1917) — One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? · tree and pragmatics
description: One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? Who acts: One. Isaiah 21:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 21:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3

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One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night?

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Seir · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 21:11 · 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 (One), 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:431
# text = One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night?
1	One	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	calleth	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Seir	Seir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Watchman	watchman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | One |  |  | Seir |  | unto me | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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מַשָּׂ֖א דּוּמָ֑ה אֵלַי֙ קֹרֵ֣א מִשֵּׂעִ֔יר שֹׁמֵר֙ מַה־מִלַּ֔יְלָה שֹׁמֵ֖ר מַה־מִלֵּֽיל׃

[Isaiah 21:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.11/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [The burden of Dumah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.430/)
2. **One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night?**
3. [Watchman, what of the night?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.432/)

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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:431` 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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