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title: Isaiah 66:16 (JPS 1917) — For by fire will the LORD contend, and by His sword with all flesh;… · tree and pragmatics
description: For by fire will the LORD contend, and by His sword with all flesh; and the slain of the LORD shall be many. Who acts: LORD, slain. Isaiah 66:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 66:16 · JPS 1917

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For by fire will the LORD contend, and by His sword with all flesh; and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

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**Who acts:** LORD, slain · **What happens:** contend, be

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This is Isaiah 66:16 · 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, slain), 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:1423
# text = For by fire will the LORD contend, and by His sword with all flesh; and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	contend	contend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	slain	slain	ADJ	NN	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
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	nmod	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **contend** | future | the LORD |  |  |  |  | by fire | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | shall | the slain of the LORD |  |  |  |  | many *property* | 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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כִּ֤י בָאֵשׁ֙ יְהוָ֣ה נִשְׁפָּ֔ט וּבְחַרְבּ֖וֹ אֶת־כָּל־בָּשָׂ֑ר וְרַבּ֖וּ חַֽלְלֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

[Isaiah 66:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.66.16/)

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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:1423` 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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