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title: Isaiah 41:28 (JPS 1917) — And I look, but there is no man; even among them, but there is no co… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I look, but there is no man; even among them, but there is no counsellor, that, when I ask of them, can give an answer. Who acts: I, counsellor. Isaiah 41:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 41:28 · JPS 1917

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And I look, but there is no man; even among them, but there is no counsellor, that, when I ask of them, can give an answer.

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**Who acts:** I, counsellor · **What happens:** look, ask, give · **To what, where:** answer

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This is Isaiah 41:28 · 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 (I, counsellor), 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:905
# text = And I look, but there is no man; even among them, but there is no counsellor, that, when I ask of them, can give an answer.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **look** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | I |  |  |  |  | of men *= man* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of they=Recipient |
| 3 | **give** | can | no counsellor | a answer |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |

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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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וְאֵ֙רֶא֙ וְאֵ֣ין אִ֔ישׁ וּמֵאֵ֖לֶּה וְאֵ֣ין יוֹעֵ֑ץ וְאֶשְׁאָלֵ֖ם וְיָשִׁ֥יבוּ דָבָֽר׃

[Isaiah 41:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.28/)

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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:905` 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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