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title: Isaiah 41:21 (JPS 1917) — Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your reasons, saith… · tree and pragmatics
description: Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your reasons, saith the King of Jacob. Who acts: you, LORD, King, your. Isaiah 41:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 41:21 · JPS 1917

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Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

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**Who acts:** you, LORD, King, your · **What happens:** produce, say, bring, cause · **To what, where:** cause, reasons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 41:21 · 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, LORD, King, your), 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:896
# text = Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
1	Produce	produce	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **produce** | imperative | you *not said here* | your cause |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive |  | your reasons |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the King of Jacob |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cause** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event 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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קָרְב֥וּ רִֽיבְכֶ֖ם יֹאמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה הַגִּ֙ישׁוּ֙ עֲצֻמ֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם יֹאמַ֖ר מֶ֥לֶךְ יַעֲקֹֽב׃

[Isaiah 41:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.21/)

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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:896` 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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