--- title: Isaiah 37:16 (JPS 1917) — 'O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest upon the cherubim,… · tree and pragmatics description: 'O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest upon the cherubim, Thou art the God, even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; Thou hast made heaven and earth. Who acts: LORD, Thou. 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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 (LORD, Thou), 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:776 # text = 'O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest upon the cherubim, Thou art the God, even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; Thou hast made heaven and earth. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 O o INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 vocative _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sittest sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 14 upon upon ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cherubim cherubim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 19 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 appos _ _ 25 alone alone ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 kingdoms kingdom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nsubj _ _ 36 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 parataxis _ _ 38 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | LORD of hosts | | | the cherubim | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon cherubim=Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the God | | | | of all kingdoms of the earth; LORD of hosts *vocative* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present · perfect | Thou | heaven and earth | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heaven=Product | 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} יְהוָ֨ה צְבָא֜וֹת אֱלֹהֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ יֹשֵׁ֣ב הַכְּרֻבִ֔ים אַתָּה־ה֤וּא הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ לְבַדְּךָ֔ לְכֹ֖ל מַמְלְכ֣וֹת הָאָ֑רֶץ אַתָּ֣ה עָשִׂ֔יתָ אֶת־הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ [Isaiah 37:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:776` 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 37:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.775/) - next →: [Isaiah 37:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.777/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 37:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.16/)