--- title: Isaiah 43:9 (JPS 1917) — Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; and let… · tree and pragmatics description: Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; and let them hear, and say: 'It is truth.' Who acts: you, peoples, flame. Isaiah 43:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.947/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/) / [chapter 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/43/) / [43:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.9/) / JPS 2 # Isaiah 43:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; and let them hear, and say: 'It is truth.' **Who acts:** you, peoples, flame · **What happens:** let, bring, justify, hear, say, be · **To what, where:** peoples, witnesses, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Isaiah 43:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, peoples, flame), 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:947 # text = Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; and let them hear, and say: 'It is truth.' 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 witnesses witness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 justified justify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | peoples *= people* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | infinitive | peoples *= people* *not said here* | peoples's witnesses | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent witness=Theme | | 3 | **justify** *speech: other* | may · passive | | peoples *= people* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | peoples *= people* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hear** | infinitive | peoples *= people* *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | peoples *= people* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | flame | truth | | | | | tree rules | 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} כָּֽל־הַגּוֹיִ֞ם נִקְבְּצ֣וּ יַחְדָּ֗ו וְיֵאָֽסְפוּ֙ לְאֻמִּ֔ים מִ֤י בָהֶם֙ יַגִּ֣יד זֹ֔את וְרִֽאשֹׁנ֖וֹת יַשְׁמִיעֻ֑נוּ יִתְּנ֤וּ עֵֽדֵיהֶם֙ וְיִצְדָּ֔קוּ וְיִשְׁמְע֖וּ וְיֹאמְר֥וּ אֱמֶֽת׃ [Isaiah 43:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.9/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [All the nations are gathered together, and the peoples are assembled; who among them can declare this, and announce to us former things?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.946/) 2. **Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; and let them hear, and say: 'It is truth.'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:947` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 43:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.946/) - next →: [Isaiah 43:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.948/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 43:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.9/)