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title: Isaiah 23:16 (JPS 1917) — Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot long forgotten; make swe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot long forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. Who acts: you. Isaiah 23:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 23:16 · JPS 1917

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Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot long forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, go, forget, make, sing, remember · **To what, where:** harp, thou, sweet melody, many songs

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This is Isaiah 23:16 · 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 (you), 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:484
# text = Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot long forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	_
11	harlot	harlot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | a harp |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thou |  |  |  | about the city | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about city=Location |
| 3 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | sweet melody |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset melody=Product |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* | many songs |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 6 | **remember** | may · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=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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קְחִ֥י כִנּ֛וֹר סֹ֥בִּי עִ֖יר זוֹנָ֣ה נִשְׁכָּחָ֑ה הֵיטִ֤יבִי נַגֵּן֙ הַרְבִּי־שִׁ֔יר לְמַ֖עַן תִּזָּכֵֽרִי׃

[Isaiah 23:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.16/)

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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:484` 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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