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title: Isaiah 39:4 (JPS 1917) — Then said he: 'What have they seen in thy house?' And Hezekiah answe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said he: 'What have they seen in thy house?' And Hezekiah answered: 'All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.' Who acts: Hezekiah, men, nothing, I. Isaiah 39:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 39:4 · JPS 1917

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Then said he: 'What have they seen in thy house?' And Hezekiah answered: 'All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.'

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**Who acts:** Hezekiah, men, nothing, I, my · **What happens:** say, see, answer, be, not show, treasure · **To what, where:** house, All, treasures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 39:4 · 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 (Hezekiah, men, nothing, I), 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:831
# text = Then said he: 'What have they seen in thy house?' And Hezekiah answered: 'All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Hezekiah	Hezekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
20	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
31	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	31	nsubj	_	_
33	among	among	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hezekiah |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect | men *= man* |  |  | thy house |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Hezekiah |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  | my house |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | present · perfect | men *= man* | All |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus |
| 6 | **be** | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **show** | present · perfect | I | my treasures |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient they=Topic |
| 8 | **treasure** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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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וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מָ֥ה רָא֖וּ בְּבֵיתֶ֑ךָ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ אֵ֣ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּבֵיתִי֙ רָא֔וּ לֹֽא־הָיָ֥ה דָבָ֛ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־הִרְאִיתִ֖ים בְּאוֹצְרֹתָֽי׃

[Isaiah 39:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.39.4/)

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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:831` 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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