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title: Isaiah 42:7 (JPS 1917) — To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,… · tree and pragmatics
description: To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house. Isaiah 42:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 42:7 · JPS 1917

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To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.

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**What happens:** open, bring out, sit · **To what, where:** blind eyes, prisoners, dungeon, darkness

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This is Isaiah 42:7 · 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: 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:913
# text = To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	conj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | to-infinitive |  | the blind eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 2 | **bring out** | to-infinitive |  | the prisoners |  | the dungeon |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent prisoner=Patient |
| 3 | **sit** | present |  |  |  | darkness |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in darkness=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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לִפְקֹ֖חַ עֵינַ֣יִם עִוְר֑וֹת לְהוֹצִ֤יא מִמַּסְגֵּר֙ אַסִּ֔יר מִבֵּ֥ית כֶּ֖לֶא יֹ֥שְׁבֵי חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

[Isaiah 42:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.7/)

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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:913` 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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