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title: Isaiah 43:21 (JPS 1917) — The people which I formed for Myself, that they might tell of My pra… · tree and pragmatics
description: The people which I formed for Myself, that they might tell of My praise. Who acts: I, peoples, My. Isaiah 43:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 43:21 · JPS 1917

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The people which I formed for Myself, that they might tell of My praise.

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**Who acts:** I, peoples, My · **What happens:** form, tell, praise · **To what, where:** people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 43:21 · 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 (I, peoples, My), 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:960
# text = The people which I formed for Myself, that they might tell of My praise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **form** | past | I | the people |  |  |  | for Myself | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Result for myself=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | might | peoples *= people* |  |  |  |  | of My praise | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **praise** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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עַם־זוּ֙ יָצַ֣רְתִּי לִ֔י תְּהִלָּתִ֖י יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃ס

[Isaiah 43:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.43.21/)

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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:960` 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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