--- title: Isaiah 63:16 (JPS 1917) — For Thou art our Father; for Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth… · tree and pragmatics description: For Thou art our Father; for Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us; Thou, O LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Thy name. Who acts: Thou, Abraham, Israel. 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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 (Thou, Abraham, Israel), 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:1359 # text = For Thou art our Father; for Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us; Thou, O LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Thy name. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 3 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 knoweth know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 doth do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 acknowledge acknowledge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 18 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 O o INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 26 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 Redeemer redeemer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 everlasting everlasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Thou | our Father | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **know** | present | Abraham | us | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **acknowledge** | present · do-support | Israel | us | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | | Thou | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | Thou | Thy name | | | | | 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} כִּֽי־אַתָּ֣ה אָבִ֔ינוּ כִּ֤י אַבְרָהָם֙ לֹ֣א יְדָעָ֔נוּ וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֣א יַכִּירָ֑נוּ אַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ אָבִ֔ינוּ גֹּאֲלֵ֥נוּ מֵֽעוֹלָ֖ם שְׁמֶֽךָ׃ [Isaiah 63:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1359` 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 63:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1358/) - next →: [Isaiah 63:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1360/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 63:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.16/)