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title: Isaiah 27:3 (JPS 1917) — I the LORD do guard it, I water it every moment; lest Mine anger vis… · tree and pragmatics
description: I the LORD do guard it, I water it every moment; lest Mine anger visit it, I guard it night and day. Who acts: I, anger, Mine. Isaiah 27:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 27:3 · JPS 1917

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I the LORD do guard it, I water it every moment; lest Mine anger visit it, I guard it night and day.

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**Who acts:** I, anger, Mine · **What happens:** guard, water, visit, anger · **To what, where:** leviathan

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This is Isaiah 27:3 · 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 (I, anger, Mine), 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:546
# text = I the LORD do guard it, I water it every moment; lest Mine anger visit it, I guard it night and day.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	water	water	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	Mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	guard	guard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **guard** | present · do-support | I | leviathan |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **water** | present | I | leviathan |  |  | moment |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 3 | **visit** | present | Mine anger | leviathan |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **guard** | present | I | leviathan |  |  | night |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **anger** |  | Mine |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ נֹֽצְרָ֔הּ לִרְגָעִ֖ים אַשְׁקֶ֑נָּה פֶּ֚ן יִפְקֹ֣ד עָלֶ֔יהָ לַ֥יְלָה וָי֖וֹם אֶצֳּרֶֽנָּה׃

[Isaiah 27:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.3/)

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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:546` 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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