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title: Isaiah 26:17 (JPS 1917) — Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delive… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been at Thy presence, O LORD. Who acts: woman, we, child. Isaiah 26:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 26:17 · JPS 1917

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Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been at Thy presence, O LORD.

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**Who acts:** woman, we, child · **What happens:** draw, be, cry out, deliver · **To what, where:** pain, pangs, presence

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This is Isaiah 26:17 · 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 (woman, we, child), 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:539
# text = Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been at Thy presence, O LORD.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	draweth	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	delivery	delivery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	crieth	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pangs	pang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
36	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	vocative	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | present | a woman with child |  |  |  | time |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | pain |  | like a woman with child | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  | child's pangs |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pang=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present · perfect | we |  |  | Thy presence |  | LORD *vocative* | tree rules |
| 5 | **deliver** |  | child |  |  |  |  |  | nom delivery «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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כְּמ֤וֹ הָרָה֙ תַּקְרִ֣יב לָלֶ֔דֶת תָּחִ֥יל תִּזְעַ֖ק בַּחֲבָלֶ֑יהָ כֵּ֛ן הָיִ֥ינוּ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ יְהוָֽה׃

[Isaiah 26:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.17/)

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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:539` 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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