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title: Isaiah 63:19 (JPS 1917) — Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come dow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence, Who acts: Thou, mountains. Isaiah 63:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 63:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence,

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**Who acts:** Thou, mountains · **What happens:** rend, come down, quake · **To what, where:** heavens

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This is Isaiah 63:19 · 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 (Thou, mountains), 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:1364
# text = Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence,
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	rend	rend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	quake	quake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=express, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rend** | would | Thou | the heavens |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Patient |
| 2 | **come down** | would | Thou |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **quake** | might | the mountains |  |  |  |  | at Thy presence | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at presence=Stimulus |

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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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הָיִ֗ינוּ מֵֽעוֹלָם֙ לֹֽא־מָשַׁ֣לְתָּ בָּ֔ם לֹֽא־נִקְרָ֥א שִׁמְךָ֖ עֲלֵיהֶ֑םלוּא־קָרַ֤עְתָּ שָׁמַ֙יִם֙ יָרַ֔דְתָּ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ הָרִ֥ים נָזֹֽלּוּ׃

[Isaiah 63:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.19/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [We are become as they over whom Thou never borest rule, as they that were not called by Thy name.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1363/)
2. **Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence,**

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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:1364` 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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