--- title: Isaiah 30:16 (JPS 1917) — But ye said: 'No, for we will flee upon horses'; therefore shall ye… · tree and pragmatics description: But ye said: 'No, for we will flee upon horses'; therefore shall ye flee; and: 'We will ride upon the swift'; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. Who acts: ye, we, horses. 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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 (ye, we, horses), 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:634 # text = But ye said: 'No, for we will flee upon horses'; therefore shall ye flee; and: 'We will ride upon the swift'; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 6 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 11 discourse _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 flee flee VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 12 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 19 flee flee VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 24 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 27 upon upon ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 swift swift ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 32 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 pursue pursue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 39 swift swift ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: disagree - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ye | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **flee** | future | we | | | | | upon horses | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **flee** | shall | ye | | | | | therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ride** | future | We | | | | | upon the swift | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pursue** | present | | you | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 6 | **is** | shall | horses *= horse* | | | | | swift, therefore *property* | tree rules | 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} וַתֹּ֨אמְר֥וּ לֹא־כִ֛י עַל־ס֥וּס נָנ֖וּס עַל־כֵּ֣ן תְּנוּס֑וּן וְעַל־קַ֣ל נִרְכָּ֔ב עַל־כֵּ֖ן יִקַּ֥לּוּ רֹדְפֵיכֶֽם׃ [Isaiah 30:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:634` 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 30:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.633/) - next →: [Isaiah 30:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.635/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 30:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.16/)