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title: Isaiah 43:19 (JPS 1917) — Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye n… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? Who acts: I, wick, ye. Isaiah 43:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 43:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it?

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**Who acts:** I, wick, ye · **What happens:** do, spring, not know · **To what, where:** new thing, wick

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This is Isaiah 43:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (I, wick, 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:957
# text = Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it?
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | future | I | a new thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **spring** | shall | wick |  |  |  | now | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **know** | shall | ye | wick |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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הִנְנִ֨י עֹשֶׂ֤ה חֲדָשָׁה֙ עַתָּ֣ה תִצְמָ֔ח הֲל֖וֹא תֵֽדָע֑וּהָ אַ֣ף אָשִׂ֤ים בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ דֶּ֔רֶךְ בִּֽישִׁמ֖וֹן נְהָרֽוֹת׃

[Isaiah 43:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.19/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it?**
2. [I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.958/)

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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:957` 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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