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title: Isaiah 41:1 (JPS 1917) — Keep silence before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep silence before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength; let them draw near, then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment. Who acts: you, peoples, us. Isaiah 41:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 41:1 · JPS 1917

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Keep silence before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength; let them draw near, then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.

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**Who acts:** you, peoples, us · **What happens:** keep, let, renew, draw, speak, come · **To what, where:** silence, peoples, strength, us, judgment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 41:1 · 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, peoples, us), 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:873
# text = Keep silence before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength; let them draw near, then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	renew	renew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	near	near	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	near	near	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	together	together	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | silence |  |  | before Me | islands *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent silence=Theme before i=Location |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the peoples |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **renew** | infinitive | the peoples *not said here* | peoples's strength |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | peoples *= people* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **draw** | infinitive | peoples *= people* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | peoples *= people* |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | peoples *= people* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **come** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | judgment |  | near, together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to judgment=Initial\_Location |

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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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הַחֲרִ֤ישׁוּ אֵלַי֙ אִיִּ֔ים וּלְאֻמִּ֖ים יַחֲלִ֣יפוּ כֹ֑חַ יִגְּשׁוּ֙ אָ֣ז יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ יַחְדָּ֖ו לַמִּשְׁפָּ֥ט נִקְרָֽבָה׃

[Isaiah 41:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.1/)

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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:873` 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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