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title: Isaiah 23:7 (JPS 1917) — Is this your joyous city, whose feet in antiquity, in ancient days,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is this your joyous city, whose feet in antiquity, in ancient days, carried her afar off to sojourn? Who acts: this, feet. Isaiah 23:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 23:7 · JPS 1917

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Is this your joyous city, whose feet in antiquity, in ancient days, carried her afar off to sojourn?

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**Who acts:** this, feet · **What happens:** be, carry off, sojourn · **To what, where:** joyous city, Tarshish, antiquity

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This is Isaiah 23:7 · 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 (this, feet), 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:475
# text = Is this your joyous city, whose feet in antiquity, in ancient days, carried her afar off to sojourn?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	afar	afar	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	off	off	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sojourn	sojourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **is a** | present | this | your joyous city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry off** | past | feet | Tarshish |  | antiquity | day | afar, off *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in antiquity=Location |
| 3 | **sojourn** | to-infinitive | feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

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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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הֲזֹ֥את לָכֶ֖ם עַלִּיזָ֑ה מִֽימֵי־קֶ֤דֶם קַדְמָתָהּ֙ יֹבִל֣וּהָ רַגְלֶ֔יהָ מֵֽרָח֖וֹק לָגֽוּר׃

[Isaiah 23:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.7/)

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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:475` 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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