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title: Isaiah 26:2 (JPS 1917) — Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation that keepeth faithfulne… · tree and pragmatics
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# Isaiah 26:2 · JPS 1917

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Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation that keepeth faithfulness may enter in.

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**Who acts:** ye, righteous nation · **What happens:** open, keep, enter in · **To what, where:** gates, faithfulness

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This is Isaiah 26:2 · 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 (ye, righteous nation), 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:524
# text = Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation that keepeth faithfulness may enter in.
1	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	keepeth	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	faithfulness	faithfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **open** | infinitive | ye | the gates |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the righteous nation | faithfulness |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faithfulness=Theme |
| 3 | **enter in** | may | the righteous nation |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: 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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פִּתְח֖וּ שְׁעָרִ֑ים וְיָבֹ֥א גוֹי־צַדִּ֖יק שֹׁמֵ֥ר אֱמֻנִֽים׃

[Isaiah 26:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.2/)

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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:524` 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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