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title: Isaiah 42:14 (JPS 1917) — I have long time held My peace, I have been still, and refrained Mys… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have long time held My peace, I have been still, and refrained Myself; now will I cry like a travailing woman, gasping and panting at once. Who acts: I, My. Isaiah 42:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 42:14 · JPS 1917

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I have long time held My peace, I have been still, and refrained Myself; now will I cry like a travailing woman, gasping and panting at once.

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**Who acts:** I, My · **What happens:** hold, be, refrain, cry, travail, gasp · **To what, where:** peace, Myself

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This is Isaiah 42:14 · 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, My), 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:920
# text = I have long time held My peace, I have been still, and refrained Myself; now will I cry like a travailing woman, gasping and panting at once.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	still	still	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	refrained	refrain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
16	Myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	travailing	travail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	amod	_	_
25	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	gasping	gasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	panting	pant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **hold** | present · perfect | I | My peace |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **refrain** | participle | I *not said here* | Myself |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | future | I |  |  |  | now | like a travailing woman | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **travail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **gasp** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **pant** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **pacify** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state 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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הֶחֱשֵׁ֙יתִי֙ מֵֽעוֹלָ֔ם אַחֲרִ֖ישׁ אֶתְאַפָּ֑ק כַּיּוֹלֵדָ֣ה אֶפְעֶ֔ה אֶשֹּׁ֥ם וְאֶשְׁאַ֖ף יָֽחַד׃

[Isaiah 42:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.14/)

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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:920` 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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