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title: Isaiah 5:1 (JPS 1917) — Let me sing of my well-beloved, a song of my beloved touching his vi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let me sing of my well-beloved, a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. Who acts: you, me, song, beloved. Isaiah 5:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 5:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Let me sing of my well-beloved, a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.

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**Who acts:** you, me, song, beloved · **What happens:** let, sing, touch · **To what, where:** me, vineyard

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This is Isaiah 5:1 · 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 (you, me, song, beloved), 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:89
# text = Let me sing of my well-beloved, a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	beloved	beloved	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	beloved	beloved	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of my beloved | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **touch** | gerund | a song of my beloved *not said here* | his vineyard |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vineyard=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **sing** |  | my beloved |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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אָשִׁ֤ירָה נָּא֙ לִֽידִידִ֔י שִׁירַ֥ת דּוֹדִ֖י לְכַרְמ֑וֹ כֶּ֛רֶם הָיָ֥ה לִֽידִידִ֖י בְּקֶ֥רֶן בֶּן־שָֽׁמֶן׃

[Isaiah 5:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Let me sing of my well-beloved, a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.**
2. [My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.90/)

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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:89` 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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