--- title: Isaiah 36:15 (JPS 1917) — neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying: The LORD wi… · tree and pragmatics description: neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying: The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. Who acts: you, Hezekiah, LORD. 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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 (you, Hezekiah, LORD), 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:752 # text = neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying: The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 1 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 2 cc _ _ 2 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Hezekiah Hezekiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 trust trust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 surely surely ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 18 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Assyria Assyria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Hezekiah | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | infinitive | Hezekiah *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **trust** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | in the LORD | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **deliver** | future | the LORD | us | | | | surely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | | 6 | **not** **give** | shall · passive | | this city | | the hand of the king of Assyria | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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} וְאַל־יַבְטַ֨ח אֶתְכֶ֤ם חִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֣ה לֵאמֹ֔ר הַצֵּ֥ל יַצִּילֵ֖נוּ יְהוָ֑ה לֹ֤א תִנָּתֵן֙ הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֔את בְּיַ֖ד מֶ֥לֶךְ אַשּֽׁוּר׃ [Isaiah 36:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:752` 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 36:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.751/) - next →: [Isaiah 36:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.753/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 36:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.15/)