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title: Isaiah 38:5 (JPS 1917) — 'Go, and say to Hezekiah: Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Go, and say to Hezekiah: Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. Who acts: you, LORD, I, thy. Isaiah 38:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 38:5 · JPS 1917

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'Go, and say to Hezekiah: Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

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**Who acts:** you, LORD, I, thy · **What happens:** go, say, hear, see, add, pray · **To what, where:** Hezekiah, prayer, tears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 38:5 · 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, LORD, I, 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:808
# text = 'Go, and say to Hezekiah: Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	parataxis	_	_
30	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
38	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Hezekiah |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to hezekiah=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hear** | present · perfect | I | thy prayer |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | present · perfect | I | thy tears |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus |
| 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | future | I |  |  |  | day; year |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **pray** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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הָל֞וֹךְ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֶל־חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ כֹּֽה־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵי֙ דָּוִ֣ד אָבִ֔יךָ שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙ אֶת־תְּפִלָּתֶ֔ךָ רָאִ֖יתִי אֶת־דִּמְעָתֶ֑ךָ הִנְנִי֙ יוֹסִ֣ף עַל־יָמֶ֔יךָ חֲמֵ֥שׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה שָׁנָֽה׃

[Isaiah 38:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.5/)

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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:808` 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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