--- title: Isaiah 38:16 (JPS 1917) — O Lord, by these things men live, and altogether therein is the life… · tree and pragmatics description: O Lord, by these things men live, and altogether therein is the life of my spirit; wherefore recover Thou me, and make me to live. Who acts: men, life, Thou, me. 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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 (men, life, Thou, me), 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:821 # text = O Lord, by these things men live, and altogether therein is the life of my spirit; wherefore recover Thou me, and make me to live. 1 O o INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ 2 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 vocative _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 7 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 altogether altogether ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 therein therein ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 wherefore wherefore ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 recover recover VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 22 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nsubj _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | men | | | | | by this things; Lord *vocative* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by thing=Location | | 2 | **be** | present | the life of my spirit | | | | | altogether, therein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **recover** | infinitive | Thou | me | | | | wherefore *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | me | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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} אֲדֹנָ֖י עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם יִֽחְי֑וּ וּלְכָל־בָּהֶן֙ חַיֵּ֣י רוּחִ֔י וְתַחֲלִימֵ֖נִי וְהַחֲיֵֽנִי׃ [Isaiah 38:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:821` 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 38:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.820/) - next →: [Isaiah 38:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.822/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 38:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.16/)