--- title: Isaiah 44:8 (JPS 1917) — Is there a God beside Me? · tree and pragmatics description: Is there a God beside Me? Who acts: God. Isaiah 44:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.979/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/) / [chapter 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/44/) / [44:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.8/) / JPS 3 # Isaiah 44:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 4 Is there a God beside Me? **Who acts:** God · **What happens:** be This is Isaiah 44:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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 (God), 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:979 # text = Is there a God beside Me? 1 Is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 1 expl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 God god NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 beside beside ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ _ 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: none - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | a God beside Me | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have I not announced unto thee of old, and declared it?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.977/) 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?** 4. [Yea, there is no Rock; I know not any.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.980/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:979` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 44:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.978/) - next →: [Isaiah 44:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.980/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 44:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.8/)