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title: Isaiah 35:4 (JPS 1917) — Say to them that are of a fearful heart: 'Be strong, fear not'; beho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Say to them that are of a fearful heart: 'Be strong, fear not'; behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God He will come and save you. Who acts: you, God. Isaiah 35:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 35:4 · JPS 1917

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Say to them that are of a fearful heart: 'Be strong, fear not'; behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God He will come and save you.

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**Who acts:** you, God · **What happens:** say, be, not fear, come, save, recompense · **To what, where:** wilderness, you, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 35:4 · 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 (you, God), 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:728
# text = Say to them that are of a fearful heart: 'Be strong, fear not'; behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God He will come and save you.
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	fear	fear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	recompense	recompense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | wilderness |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of a fearful heart | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **fear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **come** | future | your God |  |  |  |  | with vengeance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | future | God |  |  |  |  | with the recompense of God | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **save** | infinitive | God *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 8 | **recompense** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom recompense «possession 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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אִמְרוּ֙ לְנִמְהֲרֵי־לֵ֔ב חִזְק֖וּ אַל־תִּירָ֑אוּ הִנֵּ֤ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙ נָקָ֣ם יָב֔וֹא גְּמ֣וּל אֱלֹהִ֔ים ה֥וּא יָב֖וֹא וְיֹשַׁעֲכֶֽם׃

[Isaiah 35:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.35.4/)

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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:728` 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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