--- title: Isaiah 38:17 (JPS 1917) — Behold, for my peace I had great bitterness; but Thou hast in love t… · tree and pragmatics description: Behold, for my peace I had great bitterness; but Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back. Who acts: I, Thou, my. 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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 (I, Thou, my), 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:822 # text = Behold, for my peace I had great bitterness; but Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back. 1 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bitterness bitterness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 12 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 13 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 delivered deliver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 corruption corruption NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj _ _ 29 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 cast cast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 sins sin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 behind behind ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | I | great bitterness | | | | for my peace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bitterness=Patient | | 2 | **deliver** | present · perfect | Thou | bitterness | | love to my soul | | from the pit of corruption | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from pit=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **cast** | present · perfect | Thou | my sins | | Thy back | | | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sin=Theme behind back=Destination | | 4 | **pacify** | | my | | | | | | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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} הִנֵּ֥ה לְשָׁל֖וֹם מַר־לִ֣י מָ֑ר וְאַתָּ֞ה חָשַׁ֤קְתָּ נַפְשִׁי֙ מִשַּׁ֣חַת בְּלִ֔י כִּ֥י הִשְׁלַ֛כְתָּ אַחֲרֵ֥י גֵוְךָ֖ כָּל־חֲטָאָֽי׃ [Isaiah 38:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:822` 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 38:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.821/) - next →: [Isaiah 38:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.823/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 38:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.17/)