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title: Isaiah 64:2 (JPS 1917) — When Thou didst tremendous things which we looked not for — Oh that… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Thou didst tremendous things which we looked not for — Oh that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence! — Who acts: Thou, we, mountains. Isaiah 64:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 64:2 · JPS 1917

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When Thou didst tremendous things which we looked not for — Oh that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence! —

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**Who acts:** Thou, we, mountains · **What happens:** do, not look, come down, quake · **To what, where:** tremendous things

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This is Isaiah 64:2 · 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 (Thou, we, 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:1366
# text = When Thou didst tremendous things which we looked not for — Oh that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence! —
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	quake	quake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=excl, act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Thou | tremendous things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **look** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come down** | would | Thou |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **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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בַּעֲשׂוֹתְךָ֥ נוֹרָא֖וֹת לֹ֣א נְקַוֶּ֑ה יָרַ֕דְתָּ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ הָרִ֥ים נָזֹֽלּוּ׃

[Isaiah 64:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.64.2/)

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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:1366` 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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