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title: Isaiah 38:14 (JPS 1917) — Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; min… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward. Who acts: I, eyes. Isaiah 38:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 38:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward.

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**Who acts:** I, eyes · **What happens:** chatter, moan, fail, look

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This is Isaiah 38:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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: who acts (I, eyes), 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:817
# text = Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	chatter	chatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	moan	moan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Number=Plur|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chatter** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | like a swallow or a crane | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **moan** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | as a dove | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fail** | present | mine eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | mine eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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כְּס֤וּס עָגוּר֙ כֵּ֣ן אֲצַפְצֵ֔ף אֶהְגֶּ֖ה כַּיּוֹנָ֑ה דַּלּ֤וּ עֵינַי֙ לַמָּר֔וֹם אֲדֹנָ֖י עָֽשְׁקָה־לִּ֥י עָרְבֵֽנִי׃

[Isaiah 38:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.14/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward.**
2. [O LORD, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.818/)

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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:817` 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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