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title: Isaiah 33:18 (JPS 1917) — Where is he that counted the towers?' · tree and pragmatics
description: Where is he that counted the towers?' Isaiah 33:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 33:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Where is he that counted the towers?'

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**What happens:** be, count · **To what, where:** heart, towers

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This is Isaiah 33:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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: 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:701
# text = Where is he that counted the towers?'
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | past |  | the towers |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Theme |

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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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לִבְּךָ֖ יֶהְגֶּ֣ה אֵימָ֑ה אַיֵּ֤ה סֹפֵר֙ אַיֵּ֣ה שֹׁקֵ֔ל אַיֵּ֖ה סֹפֵ֥ר אֶת־הַמִּגְדָּלִֽים׃

[Isaiah 33:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Thy heart shall muse on the terror: 'Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.700/)
2. **Where is he that counted the towers?'**

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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:701` 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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