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title: Isaiah 38:3 (JPS 1917) — and said: 'Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked b… · tree and pragmatics
description: and said: 'Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight.' And Hezekiah wept sore. Who acts: I, Hezekiah, Thy. Isaiah 38:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 38:3 · JPS 1917

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and said: 'Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight.' And Hezekiah wept sore.

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**Who acts:** I, Hezekiah, Thy · **What happens:** say, remember, beseech, walk, do, be · **To what, where:** Thee, truth, that, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 38:3 · 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 (I, Hezekiah, Thy), 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:806
# text = and said: 'Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight.' And Hezekiah wept sore.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	_	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	beseech	beseech	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	obj	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
41	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
44	sore	sore	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now | LORD *vocative* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **beseech** | present | I | Thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | present · perfect | I |  |  | truth and a whole heart | before Thee |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before thou=Trajectory |
| 5 | **do** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  | Thy sight |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **weep** | past | Hezekiah |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **sight** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיֹּאמַ֗ר אָנָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ זְכָר־נָ֞א אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁ֧ר הִתְהַלַּ֣כְתִּי לְפָנֶ֗יךָ בֶּֽאֱמֶת֙ וּבְלֵ֣ב שָׁלֵ֔ם וְהַטּ֥וֹב בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ עָשִׂ֑יתִי וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ בְּכִ֥י גָדֽוֹל׃ס

[Isaiah 38:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.3/)

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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:806` 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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