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title: Isaiah 37:6 (JPS 1917) — And Isaiah said unto them: 'Thus shall ye say to your master: Thus s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Isaiah said unto them: 'Thus shall ye say to your master: Thus saith the LORD: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. Who acts: Isaiah, ye, LORD, thou. Isaiah 37:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Isaiah 37:6 · JPS 1917

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And Isaiah said unto them: 'Thus shall ye say to your master: Thus saith the LORD: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

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**Who acts:** Isaiah, ye, LORD, thou, servants · **What happens:** say, not be, hear, blaspheme · **To what, where:** words, Me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 37:6 · 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 (Isaiah, ye, LORD, thou), 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:766
# text = And Isaiah said unto them: 'Thus shall ye say to your master: Thus saith the LORD: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Isaiah	Isaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
8	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
32	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Assyria	Assyria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	blasphemed	blaspheme	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
42	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Isaiah |  |  |  |  | unto servants *= servant* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | ye |  |  |  |  | to your master; thus *property* | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to master=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of the words; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | present · perfect | thou | the words |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 6 | **blaspheme** | present · perfect | the servants of the king of Assyria | Me |  |  |  | wherewith *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם֙ יְשַֽׁעְיָ֔הוּ כֹּ֥ה תֹאמְר֖וּן אֶל־אֲדֹנֵיכֶ֑ם כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה אַל־תִּירָא֙ מִפְּנֵ֤י הַדְּבָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁמַ֔עְתָּ אֲשֶׁ֧ר גִּדְּפ֛וּ נַעֲרֵ֥י מֶלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֖וּר אוֹתִֽי׃

[Isaiah 37:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.6/)

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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:766` 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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