--- title: Isaiah 54:6 (JPS 1917) — For the LORD hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spir… · tree and pragmatics description: For the LORD hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit; and a wife of youth, can she be rejected? saith thy God. Who acts: LORD, God. 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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 (LORD, 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:1191 # text = For the LORD hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit; and a wife of youth, can she be rejected? saith thy God. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 parataxis _ _ 6 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 forsaken forsake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 grieved grieve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 dislocated _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 rejected reject VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 parataxis _ _ 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 27 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present · perfect | the LORD | thee | | | | as a wife | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | | 2 | **forsake** | participle | | a wife *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grieve** | participle | | | | spirit | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **reject** | can · passive | | wife | | | | a wife of youth *dislocated* | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | thy God | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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} כִּֽי־כְאִשָּׁ֧ה עֲזוּבָ֛ה וַעֲצ֥וּבַת ר֖וּחַ קְרָאָ֣ךְ יְהוָ֑ה וְאֵ֧שֶׁת נְעוּרִ֛ים כִּ֥י תִמָּאֵ֖ס אָמַ֥ר אֱלֹהָֽיִךְ׃ [Isaiah 54:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.54.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1191` 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 54:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1190/) - next →: [Isaiah 54:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1192/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 54:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.54.6/)