--- title: Isaiah 49:4 (JPS 1917) — But I said: 'I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for n… · tree and pragmatics description: But I said: 'I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.' Who acts: I, right, 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 (I, right, 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:1086 # text = But I said: 'I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.' 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 laboured labour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 nought nought NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 vanity vanity NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 22 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 surely surely ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 recompense recompense NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **labour** | present · perfect | I | | | vain | | | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spend** | present · perfect | I | my strength | | | | for nought and vanity | vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent strength=Asset for nought=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | my right and my recompense with my God | | | | | with the LORD; surely *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **recompense** | | my | | | | | with my God | nom recompense «possession transitive»: poss=agent with=obl | 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} וַאֲנִ֤י אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ לְרִ֣יק יָגַ֔עְתִּי לְתֹ֥הוּ וְהֶ֖בֶל כֹּחִ֣י כִלֵּ֑יתִי אָכֵן֙ מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה וּפְעֻלָּתִ֖י אֶת־אֱלֹהָֽי׃ [Isaiah 49:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1086` 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 49:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1085/) - next →: [Isaiah 49:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1087/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 49:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.4/)