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title: Isaiah 29:4 (JPS 1917) — And brought down thou shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech… · tree and pragmatics
description: And brought down thou shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of a ghost out of the ground, and thy speech shall chirp out of the dust. Who acts: thou, speech, voice, thy. Isaiah 29:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Isaiah 29:4 · JPS 1917

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And brought down thou shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of a ghost out of the ground, and thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.

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**Who acts:** thou, speech, voice, thy · **What happens:** bring down, speak out, be, chirp, speak · **To what, where:** ground, dust · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 29:4 · 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 (thou, speech, voice, thy), 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:595
# text = And brought down thou shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of a ghost out of the ground, and thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	chirp	chirp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **bring down** | participle | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speak out** *speech: other* | shall | thou | the ground |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | shall | thy speech |  |  | the dust |  | low *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | shall | thy voice |  |  | the ground |  | as a ghost | tree rules |
| 5 | **chirp** | shall | thy speech |  |  | the dust |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **speak** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **speak** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication 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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וְשָׁפַלְתְּ֙ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ תְּדַבֵּ֔רִי וּמֵֽעָפָ֖ר תִּשַּׁ֣ח אִמְרָתֵ֑ךְ וְֽ֠הָיָה כְּא֤וֹב מֵאֶ֙רֶץ֙ קוֹלֵ֔ךְ וּמֵעָפָ֖ר אִמְרָתֵ֥ךְ תְּצַפְצֵֽף׃

[Isaiah 29:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.4/)

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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:595` 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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