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title: Isaiah 29:18 (JPS 1917) — And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book, and the eye… · tree and pragmatics
description: And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness. Who acts: deaf, eyes. Isaiah 29:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 29:18 · JPS 1917

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And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

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**Who acts:** deaf, eyes · **What happens:** hear, see out, word · **To what, where:** words, obscurity, book

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This is Isaiah 29:18 · 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 (deaf, eyes), 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:611
# text = And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	deaf	deaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	blind	blind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **hear** | shall | the deaf | the words of a book |  |  | day |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see out** | shall | the eyes of the blind | obscurity and darkness |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer obscurity=Stimulus |
| 3 | **word** |  |  | a book |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וְשָׁמְע֧וּ בַיּוֹם־הַה֛וּא הַחֵרְשִׁ֖ים דִּבְרֵי־סֵ֑פֶר וּמֵאֹ֣פֶל וּמֵחֹ֔שֶׁךְ עֵינֵ֥י עִוְרִ֖ים תִּרְאֶֽינָה׃

[Isaiah 29:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.18/)

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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:611` 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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