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title: Isaiah 43:20 (JPS 1917) — The beasts of the field shall honour Me, the jackals and the ostrich… · tree and pragmatics
description: The beasts of the field shall honour Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, Mine elect; Who acts: beasts, I. Isaiah 43:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 43:20 · JPS 1917

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The beasts of the field shall honour Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, Mine elect;

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**Who acts:** beasts, I · **What happens:** honour, give · **To what, where:** Me, waters, wilderness, drink, people

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This is Isaiah 43:20 · 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 (beasts, 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:959
# text = The beasts of the field shall honour Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, Mine elect;
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	jackals	jackal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
19	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
32	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	Mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	elect	elect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honour** | shall | the beasts of the field and the jackals and the ostriches | Me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | I | waters and rivers in the desert |  | the wilderness |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | drink | My people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent drink=Theme to people=Recipient |

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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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תְּכַבְּדֵ֙נִי֙ חַיַּ֣ת הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה תַּנִּ֖ים וּבְנ֣וֹת יַֽעֲנָ֑ה כִּֽי־נָתַ֨תִּי בַמִּדְבָּ֜ר מַ֗יִם נְהָרוֹת֙ בִּֽישִׁימֹ֔ן לְהַשְׁק֖וֹת עַמִּ֥י בְחִירִֽי׃

[Isaiah 43:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.20/)

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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:959` 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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