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title: Isaiah 33:2 (JPS 1917) — O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for Thee; be Thou their… · tree and pragmatics
description: O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for Thee; be Thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. Who acts: you, we, Thou, our. Isaiah 33:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 33:2 · JPS 1917

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O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for Thee; be Thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

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**Who acts:** you, we, Thou, our · **What happens:** be, wait, salve · **To what, where:** arm

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This is Isaiah 33:2 · 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 (you, we, Thou, our), 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:683
# text = O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for Thee; be Thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
16	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	salvation	salvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto us; LORD *vocative*; gracious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | for Thee | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | Thou | their arm |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **salve** |  | our |  |  |  | in the time of trouble |  | nom salvation «act transitive»: poss=agent in=obl |

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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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יְהוָ֥ה חָנֵּ֖נוּ לְךָ֣ קִוִּ֑ינוּ הֱיֵ֤ה זְרֹעָם֙ לַבְּקָרִ֔ים אַף־יְשׁוּעָתֵ֖נוּ בְּעֵ֥ת צָרָֽה׃

[Isaiah 33:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.2/)

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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:683` 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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