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title: Isaiah 40:3 (JPS 1917) — Hark! one calleth: 'Clear ye in the wilderness the way of the LORD,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hark! one calleth: 'Clear ye in the wilderness the way of the LORD, make plain in the desert a highway for our God. Who acts: one, ye. Isaiah 40:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 40:3 · JPS 1917

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Hark! one calleth: 'Clear ye in the wilderness the way of the LORD, make plain in the desert a highway for our God.

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**Who acts:** one, ye · **What happens:** call, clear, make · **To what, where:** way, wilderness, highway, desert · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 40:3 · 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 (one, ye), 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:838
# text = Hark! one calleth: 'Clear ye in the wilderness the way of the LORD, make plain in the desert a highway for our God.
1	Hark	hark	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
4	calleth	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Clear	clear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **clear** | infinitive | ye | the way of the LORD |  | the wilderness |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent way=Source |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | a highway |  | the desert |  | for our God; plain *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent highway=Product for god=Beneficiary |

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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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ק֣וֹל קוֹרֵ֔א בַּמִּדְבָּ֕ר פַּנּ֖וּ דֶּ֣רֶךְ יְהוָ֑ה יַשְּׁרוּ֙ בָּעֲרָבָ֔ה מְסִלָּ֖ה לֵאלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

[Isaiah 40:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.3/)

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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:838` 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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