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title: Isaiah 63:8 (JPS 1917) — For He said: 'Surely, they are My people, children that will not dea… · tree and pragmatics
description: For He said: 'Surely, they are My people, children that will not deal falsely'; so He was their Saviour. Who acts: LORD, mention, children. Isaiah 63:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 63:8 · JPS 1917

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For He said: 'Surely, they are My people, children that will not deal falsely'; so He was their Saviour.

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**Who acts:** LORD, mention, children · **What happens:** say, be, not deal · **To what, where:** people, Saviour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 63:8 · 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 (LORD, mention, children), 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:1349
# text = For He said: 'Surely, they are My people, children that will not deal falsely'; so He was their Saviour.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
6	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	ccomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	falsely	falsely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	Saviour	Saviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | mention | My people |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **deal** | future | children |  |  |  |  | falsely *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | LORD | mention's Saviour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַךְ־עַמִּ֣י הֵ֔מָּה בָּנִ֖ים לֹ֣א יְשַׁקֵּ֑רוּ וַיְהִ֥י לָהֶ֖ם לְמוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃

[Isaiah 63:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.8/)

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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:1349` 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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