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title: Isaiah 57:12 (JPS 1917) — I will declare thy righteousness; thy works also — they shall not pr… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will declare thy righteousness; thy works also — they shall not profit thee. Who acts: I, works, thy. Isaiah 57:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 57:12 · JPS 1917

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I will declare thy righteousness; thy works also — they shall not profit thee.

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**Who acts:** I, works, thy · **What happens:** declare, not profit, work · **To what, where:** righteousness, thee

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This is Isaiah 57:12 · 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 (I, works, thy), 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:1247
# text = I will declare thy righteousness; thy works also — they shall not profit thee.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	profit	profit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | future | I | thy righteousness |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteousness=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **profit** | shall | works *= work* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer thou=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **work** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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אֲנִ֥י אַגִּ֖יד צִדְקָתֵ֑ךְ וְאֶֽת־מַעֲשַׂ֖יִךְ וְלֹ֥א יוֹעִילֽוּךְ׃

[Isaiah 57:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.12/)

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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:1247` 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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