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title: Isaiah 65:23 (JPS 1917) — They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror; for they… · tree and pragmatics
description: They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror; for they are the seed blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. Who acts: infant. Isaiah 65:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 65:23 · JPS 1917

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They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror; for they are the seed blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

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**Who acts:** infant · **What happens:** not labour, bring, be, bless · **To what, where:** vain, seed

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This is Isaiah 65:23 · 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 (infant), 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:1399
# text = They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror; for they are the seed blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	labour	labour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vain	vain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
19	blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	offspring	offspring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **labour** | shall | infant |  |  | vain |  |  | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | infant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for terror; forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | infant | the seed and infant's offspring with people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bless** | participle |  | the seed and infant's offspring with people *not said here* |  |  |  | of the LORD | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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לֹ֤א יִֽיגְעוּ֙ לָרִ֔יק וְלֹ֥א יֵלְד֖וּ לַבֶּהָלָ֑ה כִּ֣י זֶ֜רַע בְּרוּכֵ֤י יְהוָה֙ הֵ֔מָּה וְצֶאֱצָאֵיהֶ֖ם אִתָּֽם׃

[Isaiah 65:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.23/)

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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:1399` 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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