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title: Isaiah 63:17 (JPS 1917) — Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance. · tree and pragmatics
description: Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance. Who acts: you, Thine. Isaiah 63:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 63:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance.

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**Who acts:** you, Thine · **What happens:** return, inherit

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This is Isaiah 63:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (you, Thine), 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:1361
# text = Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance.
1	Return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Thy servants's sake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inherit** |  | Thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: 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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לָ֣מָּה תַתְעֵ֤נוּ יְהוָה֙ מִדְּרָכֶ֔יךָ תַּקְשִׁ֥יחַ לִבֵּ֖נוּ מִיִּרְאָתֶ֑ךָ שׁ֚וּב לְמַ֣עַן עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ שִׁבְטֵ֖י נַחֲלָתֶֽךָ׃

[Isaiah 63:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [O LORD, why dost Thou make us to err from Thy ways, and hardenest our heart from Thy fear?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1360/)
2. **Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance.**

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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:1361` 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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