--- title: Isaiah 54:10 (JPS 1917) — For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindn… · tree and pragmatics description: For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall My covenant of peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath compassion on thee. Who acts: mountains, kindness, LORD, peace. 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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 (mountains, kindness, LORD, peace), 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:1195 # text = For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall My covenant of peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath compassion on thee. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 depart depart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 depart depart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 29 cc _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 24 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 hath have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 compassion compassion NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **depart** | may | the mountains | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **remove** | infinitive · passive | | the hills | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **not** **depart** | shall | My kindness | | | thee | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from thou=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **remove** | shall · passive | | My covenant of peace | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | present | the LORD | compassion | | thee | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient | | 7 | **covenant** | | peace | | | | | | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: of=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} כִּ֤י הֶֽהָרִים֙ יָמ֔וּשׁוּ וְהַגְּבָע֖וֹת תְּמוּטֶ֑נָה וְחַסְדִּ֞י מֵאִתֵּ֣ךְ לֹֽא־יָמ֗וּשׁ וּבְרִ֤ית שְׁלוֹמִי֙ לֹ֣א תָמ֔וּט אָמַ֥ר מְרַחֲמֵ֖ךְ יְהוָֽה׃ס [Isaiah 54:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.54.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1195` 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 54:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1194/) - next →: [Isaiah 54:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1196/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 54:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.54.10/)