--- title: Isaiah 65:16 (JPS 1917) — So that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself by… · tree and pragmatics description: So that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself by the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from Mine eyes. Who acts: GOD. 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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 (GOD), 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:1392 # text = So that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself by the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from Mine eyes. 1 So so SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 2 that that SCONJ IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 blesseth bless VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obj _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 sweareth swear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 swear swear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 troubles trouble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 because because SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 hid hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 conj _ _ 46 from from ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 Mine my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | present | | GOD | | the earth | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 2 | **bless** | shall | GOD | GOD | | | | by the God of truth | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 3 | **swear** | present | | | | the earth | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **swear** | shall | GOD | | | | | by the God of truth | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **forget** | present · passive | | the former troubles | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hide** | present · passive | | troubles *= trouble* | | Mine eyes | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from eye=Beneficiary | 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} אֲשֶׁ֨ר הַמִּתְבָּרֵ֜ךְ בָּאָ֗רֶץ יִתְבָּרֵךְ֙ בֵּאלֹהֵ֣י אָמֵ֔ן וְהַנִּשְׁבָּ֣ע בָּאָ֔רֶץ יִשָּׁבַ֖ע בֵּאלֹהֵ֣י אָמֵ֑ן כִּ֣י נִשְׁכְּח֗וּ הַצָּרוֹת֙ הָרִ֣אשֹׁנ֔וֹת וְכִ֥י נִסְתְּר֖וּ מֵעֵינָֽי׃ [Isaiah 65:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1392` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 65:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1391/) - next →: [Isaiah 65:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1393/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 65:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.16/)