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title: Isaiah 26:1 (JPS 1917) — In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; walls and bulwarks doth He appoint for salvation. Who acts: We, Judah. Isaiah 26:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 26:1 · JPS 1917

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In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; walls and bulwarks doth He appoint for salvation.

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**Who acts:** We, Judah · **What happens:** sing, have, appoint · **To what, where:** song, land, strong city, walls

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This is Isaiah 26:1 · 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 (We, Judah), 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:523
# text = In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; walls and bulwarks doth He appoint for salvation.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	bulwarks	bulwark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	appoint	appoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	salvation	salvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | shall · passive |  | this song |  | the land of Judah | day |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | We | a strong city |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
| 3 | **appoint** | present · do-support | Judah | walls and bulwarks |  |  |  | for salvation | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=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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בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא יוּשַׁ֥ר הַשִּׁיר־הַזֶּ֖ה בְּאֶ֣רֶץ יְהוּדָ֑ה עִ֣יר עָז־לָ֔נוּ יְשׁוּעָ֥ה יָשִׁ֖ית חוֹמ֥וֹת וָחֵֽל׃

[Isaiah 26:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.1/)

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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:523` 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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