--- title: Isaiah 63:5 (JPS 1917) — And I looked, and there was none to help, and I beheld in astonishme… · tree and pragmatics description: And I looked, and there was none to help, and I beheld in astonishment, and there was none to uphold; therefore Mine own arm brought salvation unto Me, and My fury, it upheld Me. Who acts: I, none, own arm, arm. 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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 (I, none, own arm, arm), 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:1346 # text = And I looked, and there was none to help, and I beheld in astonishment, and there was none to uphold; therefore Mine own arm brought salvation unto Me, and My fury, it upheld Me. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 7 nsubj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 20 nsubj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 uphold uphold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 Mine my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 salvation salvation NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 unto unto ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 fury fury NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 dislocated _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 upheld uphold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 40 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | I | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **be** | past | none | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **behold** | past | I | | | astonishment | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **be** | past | none | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **uphold** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **bring** | past | Mine own arm | salvation | | | | unto Me; therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent salvation=Theme | | 8 | **uphold** | past | arm | Me | | | | My fury *dislocated* | tree rules | | 9 | **infuriate** | | My | | | | | | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=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} וְאַבִּיט֙ וְאֵ֣ין עֹזֵ֔ר וְאֶשְׁתּוֹמֵ֖ם וְאֵ֣ין סוֹמֵ֑ךְ וַתּ֤וֹשַֽׁע לִי֙ זְרֹעִ֔י וַחֲמָתִ֖י הִ֥יא סְמָכָֽתְנִי׃ [Isaiah 63:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1346` 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 63:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1345/) - next →: [Isaiah 63:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1347/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 63:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.5/)