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title: Isaiah 44:7 (JPS 1917) — And who, as I, can proclaim — let him declare it, and set it in orde… · tree and pragmatics
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# Isaiah 44:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And who, as I, can proclaim — let him declare it, and set it in order for Me — since I appointed the ancient people?

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**Who acts:** you, LORD, I · **What happens:** proclaim, let, declare, set, appoint · **To what, where:** LORD, water, order, ancient people

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This is Isaiah 44:7 · 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 (you, LORD, 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:975
# text = And who, as I, can proclaim — let him declare it, and set it in order for Me — since I appointed the ancient people?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	csubj	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proclaim** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | LORD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive | LORD *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* | water |  | order |  | for Me | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in order=Destination |
| 5 | **appoint** | past | I | the ancient people |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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וּמִֽי־כָמ֣וֹנִי יִקְרָ֗א וְיַגִּידֶ֤הָ וְיַעְרְכֶ֙הָ֙ לִ֔י מִשּׂוּמִ֖י עַם־עוֹלָ֑ם וְאֹתִיּ֛וֹת וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר תָּבֹ֖אנָה יַגִּ֥ידוּ לָֽמוֹ׃

[Isaiah 44:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And who, as I, can proclaim — let him declare it, and set it in order for Me — since I appointed the ancient people?**
2. [And the things that are coming, and that shall come to pass, let them declare.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.976/)

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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:975` 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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