--- title: Isaiah 46:10 (JPS 1917) — Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things… · tree and pragmatics description: Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying: 'My counsel shall stand, and all My pleasure will I do'; Who acts: counsel, I, My. 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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 (counsel, I, 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:1039 # text = Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying: 'My counsel shall stand, and all My pleasure will I do'; 1 Declaring declare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 beginning beginning NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 yet yet ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 29 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund | | the end | | | from the beginning | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Attribute | | 2 | **not** **do** | present · passive | | things from ancient times | | | yet | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **stand** | shall | My counsel | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | future | I | My pleasure | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Eventuality | | 6 | **please** | | My | | | | | | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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} מַגִּ֤יד מֵֽרֵאשִׁית֙ אַחֲרִ֔ית וּמִקֶּ֖דֶם אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־נַעֲשׂ֑וּ אֹמֵר֙ עֲצָתִ֣י תָק֔וּם וְכָל־חֶפְצִ֖י אֶעֱשֶֽׂה׃ [Isaiah 46:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1039` 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 46:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1038/) - next →: [Isaiah 46:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1040/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 46:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.10/)