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title: Isaiah 65:8 (JPS 1917) — Thus saith the LORD: As, when wine is found in the cluster, one sait… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus saith the LORD: As, when wine is found in the cluster, one saith: 'Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it'; so will I do for My servants' sakes, that I may not destroy all. Who acts: LORD, one, blessing, I. Isaiah 65:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 65:8 · JPS 1917

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Thus saith the LORD: As, when wine is found in the cluster, one saith: 'Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it'; so will I do for My servants' sakes, that I may not destroy all.

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**Who acts:** LORD, one, blessing, I · **What happens:** say, find, not destroy, be, do · **To what, where:** wine, cluster, blessing, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 65:8 · 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 (LORD, one, blessing, I), 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:1384
# text = Thus saith the LORD: As, when wine is found in the cluster, one saith: 'Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it'; so will I do for My servants' sakes, that I may not destroy all.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
9	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cluster	cluster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	advcl	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	'	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	sakes	sake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
47	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | wine |  | the cluster |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **destroy** | infinitive |  | wine |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | a blessing |  |  | blessing |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | future | I |  |  |  |  | for My servants's sakes | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **destroy** | may | I | all |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient |

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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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כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר יִמָּצֵ֤א הַתִּירוֹשׁ֙ בָּֽאֶשְׁכּ֔וֹל וְאָמַר֙ אַל־תַּשְׁחִיתֵ֔הוּ כִּ֥י בְרָכָ֖ה בּ֑וֹ כֵּ֤ן אֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ לְמַ֣עַן עֲבָדַ֔י לְבִלְתִּ֖י הַֽשְׁחִ֥ית הַכֹּֽל׃

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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:1384` of Mova's parse database.

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