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title: Isaiah 55:7 (JPS 1917) — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return unto the LORD, and He will have compassion upon him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. Who acts: you, wicked, nation. Isaiah 55:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Isaiah 55:7 · JPS 1917

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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return unto the LORD, and He will have compassion upon him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

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**Who acts:** you, wicked, nation · **What happens:** let, forsake, return, have, pardon, think · **To what, where:** way, wicked, compassion

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This is Isaiah 55:7 · JPS 1917 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 (you, wicked, nation), 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:1211
# text = Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return unto the LORD, and He will have compassion upon him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
28	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forsake** | infinitive | the wicked | wicked's way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | wicked |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** | infinitive | wicked *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD and our God | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | future | wicked | compassion |  |  |  | upon nation | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient |
| 6 | **pardon** | future | nation |  |  |  |  | abundantly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **think** |  | wicked |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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יַעֲזֹ֤ב רָשָׁע֙ דַּרְכּ֔וֹ וְאִ֥ישׁ אָ֖וֶן מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֑יו וְיָשֹׁ֤ב אֶל־יְהוָה֙ וִֽירַחֲמֵ֔הוּ וְאֶל־אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ כִּֽי־יַרְבֶּ֥ה לִסְלֽוֹחַ׃

[Isaiah 55:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.55.7/)

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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:1211` 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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