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title: Isaiah 26:16 (JPS 1917) — LORD, in trouble have they sought Thee, silently they poured out a p… · tree and pragmatics
description: LORD, in trouble have they sought Thee, silently they poured out a prayer when Thy chastening was upon them. Who acts: shades, chastening. Isaiah 26:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 26:16 · JPS 1917

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LORD, in trouble have they sought Thee, silently they poured out a prayer when Thy chastening was upon them.

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**Who acts:** shades, chastening · **What happens:** seek, pour out, be · **To what, where:** Thee, trouble, prayer

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This is Isaiah 26:16 · 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 (shades, chastening), 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:538
# text = LORD, in trouble have they sought Thee, silently they poured out a prayer when Thy chastening was upon them.
1	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
8	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
17	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	chastening	chasten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect | shades *= shade* | Thee |  | trouble |  | LORD *vocative* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thou=Theme in trouble=Location |
| 2 | **pour out** | past | shades *= shade* | a prayer |  |  |  | silently *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Thy chastening |  |  |  |  | upon name | tree rules |

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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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יְהוָ֖ה בַּצַּ֣ר פְּקָד֑וּךָ צָק֣וּן לַ֔חַשׁ מוּסָרְךָ֖ לָֽמוֹ׃

[Isaiah 26:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.16/)

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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:538` 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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