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title: Isaiah 49:15 (JPS 1917) — Yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee. · tree and pragmatics
description: Yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee. Who acts: these, I. Isaiah 49:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 49:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.

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**Who acts:** these, I · **What happens:** forget, not forget · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Isaiah 49:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (these, 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:1098
# text = Yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.
1	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | may | these |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | future | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח אִשָּׁה֙ עוּלָ֔הּ מֵרַחֵ֖ם בֶּן־בִּטְנָ֑הּ גַּם־אֵ֣לֶּה תִשְׁכַּ֔חְנָה וְאָנֹכִ֖י לֹ֥א אֶשְׁכָּחֵֽךְ׃

[Isaiah 49:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.15/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1097/)
2. **Yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.**

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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:1098` 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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