--- title: Isaiah 43:12 (JPS 1917) — I have declared, and I have saved, and I have announced, and there w… · tree and pragmatics description: I have declared, and I have saved, and I have announced, and there was no strange god among you; therefore ye are My witnesses, saith the LORD, and I am God. Who acts: I, ye. 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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, ye), 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:950 # text = I have declared, and I have saved, and I have announced, and there was no strange god among you; therefore ye are My witnesses, saith the LORD, and I am God. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 declared declare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 saved save VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 announced announce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 there there PRON EX _ 17 expl _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 19 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 21 among among ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 My my PRON PRP$ Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 witnesses witness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **save** | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **announce** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | ye | My witnesses and God | | | | therefore *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | the LORD | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lord=Topic | | 6 | **is a** | present | I | God | | | | | 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} אָנֹכִ֞י הִגַּ֤דְתִּי וְהוֹשַׁ֙עְתִּי֙ וְהִשְׁמַ֔עְתִּי וְאֵ֥ין בָּכֶ֖ם זָ֑ר וְאַתֶּ֥ם עֵדַ֛י נְאֻם־יְהוָ֖ה וַֽאֲנִי־אֵֽל׃ [Isaiah 43:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:950` 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 43:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.949/) - next →: [Isaiah 43:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.951/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 43:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.12/)