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title: Isaiah 40:25 (JPS 1917) — To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal? saith the Hol… · tree and pragmatics
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# Isaiah 40:25 · JPS 1917

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To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal? saith the Holy One.

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**Who acts:** ye, I, Holy One · **What happens:** liken, be, say · **To what, where:** Me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 40:25 · 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 (ye, I, Holy One), 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:864
# text = To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal? saith the Holy One.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obl	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	liken	liken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
7	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
18	One	One	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **liken** | future | ye | Me |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | should | I |  |  |  |  | equal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Holy One |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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וְאֶל־מִ֥י תְדַמְּי֖וּנִי וְאֶשְׁוֶ֑ה יֹאמַ֖ר קָדֽוֹשׁ׃

[Isaiah 40:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.25/)

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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:864` 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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