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title: Isaiah 42:19 (JPS 1917) — Or deaf, as My messenger that I send? · tree and pragmatics
description: Or deaf, as My messenger that I send? Who acts: I. Isaiah 42:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 42:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3

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Or deaf, as My messenger that I send?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** messenger

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This is Isaiah 42:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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), 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:927
# text = Or deaf, as My messenger that I send?
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | I | My messenger |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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מִ֤י עִוֵּר֙ כִּ֣י אִם־עַבְדִּ֔י וְחֵרֵ֖שׁ כְּמַלְאָכִ֣י אֶשְׁלָ֑ח מִ֤י עִוֵּר֙ כִּמְשֻׁלָּ֔ם וְעִוֵּ֖ר כְּעֶ֥בֶד יְהוָֽה׃

[Isaiah 42:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.19/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Who is blind, but My servant?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.926/)
2. **Or deaf, as My messenger that I send?**
3. [Who is blind as he that is wholehearted, and blind as the LORD'S servant?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.928/)

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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:927` 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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