--- title: Isaiah 57:6 (JPS 1917) — Should I pacify Myself for these things? · tree and pragmatics description: Should I pacify Myself for these things? Who acts: I. Isaiah 57:6 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.1238/) [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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/57/) / [57:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.6/) / JPS 2 # Isaiah 57:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Should I pacify Myself for these things? **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** pacify · **To what, where:** Myself This is Isaiah 57:6 · 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 (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:1238 # text = Should I pacify Myself for these things? 1 Should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pacify pacify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 Myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: express - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=express | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pacify** | should | I | Myself | | | | for this things | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer | 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} בְּחַלְּקֵי־נַ֣חַל חֶלְקֵ֔ךְ הֵ֥ם הֵ֖ם גּוֹרָלֵ֑ךְ גַּם־לָהֶ֞ם שָׁפַ֥כְתְּ נֶ֙סֶךְ֙ הֶעֱלִ֣ית מִנְחָ֔ה הַ֥עַל אֵ֖לֶּה אֶנָּחֵֽם׃ [Isaiah 57:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.6/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Among the smooth stones of the valley is thy portion; they, they are thy lot; even to them hast thou poured a drink-offering, thou hast offered a meal-offering.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1237/) 2. **Should I pacify Myself for these things?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1238` 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 57:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1237/) - next →: [Isaiah 57:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1239/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 57:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.6/)