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title: Isaiah 42:11 (JPS 1917) — Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the v… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela exult, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Who acts: you, wilderness, Kedar, inhabitants. Isaiah 42:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Isaiah 42:11 · JPS 1917

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Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela exult, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

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**Who acts:** you, wilderness, Kedar, inhabitants · **What happens:** let, lift up, inhabit, exult, shout · **To what, where:** wilderness, voice, villages, inhabitants, top

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This is Isaiah 42:11 · 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, wilderness, Kedar, inhabitants), 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:917
# text = Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela exult, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	Kedar	Kedar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	inhabit	inhabit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Sela	Sela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	exult	exult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the wilderness and the cities |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift up** | infinitive | the wilderness and the cities *not said here* | cities's voice |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 3 | **inhabit** | present · do-support | Kedar | the villages |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | the inhabitants of Sela |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme |
| 5 | **exult** | infinitive | the inhabitants of Sela *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive |  | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | inhabitants *= inhabitant* *not said here* |  |  | the top of the mountains |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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יִשְׂא֤וּ מִדְבָּר֙ וְעָרָ֔יו חֲצֵרִ֖ים תֵּשֵׁ֣ב קֵדָ֑ר יָרֹ֙נּוּ֙ יֹ֣שְׁבֵי סֶ֔לַע מֵרֹ֥אשׁ הָרִ֖ים יִצְוָֽחוּ׃

[Isaiah 42:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.11/)

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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:917` 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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