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title: Isaiah 44:8 (JPS 1917) — Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have I not announced unto thee of ol… · tree and pragmatics
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# Isaiah 44:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 4

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Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have I not announced unto thee of old, and declared it?

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**Who acts:** ye, I · **What happens:** not fear, be, not announce, declare · **To what, where:** old

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This is Isaiah 44:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 4 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 (ye, 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:977
# text = Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have I not announced unto thee of old, and declared it?
1	Fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	announced	announce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	old	old	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fear** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **announce** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | unto thee; of old | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | participle | I *not said here* | old |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |

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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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אַֽל־תִּפְחֲדוּ֙ וְאַל־תִּרְה֔וּ הֲלֹ֥א מֵאָ֛ז הִשְׁמַעְתִּ֥יךָ וְהִגַּ֖דְתִּי וְאַתֶּ֣ם עֵדָ֑י הֲיֵ֤שׁ אֱל֙וֹהַּ֙ מִבַּלְעָדַ֔י וְאֵ֥ין צ֖וּר בַּל־יָדָֽעְתִּי׃

[Isaiah 44:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have I not announced unto thee of old, and declared it?**
2. [And ye are My witnesses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.978/)
3. [Is there a God beside Me?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.979/)
4. [Yea, there is no Rock; I know not any.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.980/)

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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:977` 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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