--- title: Isaiah 6:7 (JPS 1917) — and he touched my mouth with it, and said: Lo, this hath touched thy… · tree and pragmatics description: and he touched my mouth with it, and said: Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated. Who acts: seraphim, this, sin. 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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 (seraphim, this, sin), 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:128 # text = and he touched my mouth with it, and said: Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated. 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 Lo lo INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 nsubj _ _ 15 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 17 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 expiated expiate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **touch** | past | seraphim | my mouth | | | | with mouth | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mouth=Experiencer with it=Instrument | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | seraphim *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **touch** | present · perfect | this | thy lips | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lip=Co-Theme | | 4 | **take away** | present · passive | | thine iniquity | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **expiate** | participle | thy sin | | | | | | tree rules | 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} וַיַּגַּ֣ע עַל־פִּ֔י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּ֛ה נָגַ֥ע זֶ֖ה עַל־שְׂפָתֶ֑יךָ וְסָ֣ר עֲוֺנֶ֔ךָ וְחַטָּאתְךָ֖ תְּכֻפָּֽר׃ [Isaiah 6:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.6.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:128` 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 6:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.127/) - next →: [Isaiah 6:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.129/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 6:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.6.7/)