--- title: Isaiah 50:9 (JPS 1917) — Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? · tree and pragmatics description: Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Who acts: Lord GOD, GOD. Isaiah 50:9 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.1126/) [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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/50/) / [50:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.9/) / JPS 1 # Isaiah 50:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? **Who acts:** Lord GOD, GOD · **What happens:** help, be, condemn · **To what, where:** me This is Isaiah 50:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Lord GOD, 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:1126 # text = Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? 1 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 5 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 parataxis _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 condemn condemn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | future | the Lord GOD | | me | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 2 | **is a** | present | GOD | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **condemn** | shall | | me | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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} הֵ֣ן אֲדֹנָ֤י יְהוִה֙ יַֽעֲזָר־לִ֔י מִי־ה֖וּא יַרְשִׁיעֵ֑נִי הֵ֤ן כֻּלָּם֙ כַּבֶּ֣גֶד יִבְל֔וּ עָ֖שׁ יֹאכְלֵֽם׃ [Isaiah 50:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.9/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me?** 2. [Behold, they all shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1127/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1126` 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 50:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1125/) - next →: [Isaiah 50:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1127/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 50:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.9/)