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title: Isaiah 7:9 (JPS 1917) — If ye will not have faith, surely ye shall not be established.' · tree and pragmatics
description: If ye will not have faith, surely ye shall not be established.' Who acts: ye. Isaiah 7:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 7:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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If ye will not have faith, surely ye shall not be established.'

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** not have, not establish · **To what, where:** faith, ye

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This is Isaiah 7:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (ye), 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:145
# text = If ye will not have faith, surely ye shall not be established.'
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
6	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | ye | faith |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **establish** | shall · passive |  | ye |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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וְרֹ֤אשׁ אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ שֹׁמְר֔וֹן וְרֹ֥אשׁ שֹׁמְר֖וֹן בֶּן־רְמַלְיָ֑הוּ אִ֚ם לֹ֣א תַאֲמִ֔ינוּ כִּ֖י לֹ֥א תֵאָמֵֽנוּ׃ס

[Isaiah 7:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.144/)
2. **If ye will not have faith, surely ye shall not be established.'**

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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:145` 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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