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title: Isaiah 64:8 (JPS 1917) — Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever;… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever; behold, look, we beseech Thee, we are all Thy people. Who acts: you, we. Isaiah 64:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 64:8 · JPS 1917

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Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever; behold, look, we beseech Thee, we are all Thy people.

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** not be, remember, look, beseech, be · **To what, where:** iniquity, Thee, people

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This is Isaiah 64:8 · 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 (you, we), 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:1372
# text = Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever; behold, look, we beseech Thee, we are all Thy people.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	wroth	wroth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
11	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	beseech	beseech	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
22	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | LORD *vocative*; sore, wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | infinitive |  | iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **beseech** | present | we | Thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | we | Thy people |  |  |  |  | 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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אַל־תִּקְצֹ֤ף יְהוָה֙ עַד־מְאֹ֔ד וְאַל־לָעַ֖ד תִּזְכֹּ֣ר עָוֺ֑ן הֵ֥ן הַבֶּט־נָ֖א עַמְּךָ֥ כֻלָּֽנוּ׃

[Isaiah 64:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.64.8/)

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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:1372` 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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