--- title: Isaiah 39:7 (JPS 1917) — And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, s… · tree and pragmatics description: And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be officers in the palace of the king of Babylon.' Who acts: sons, thou, fathers. 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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 (sons, thou, fathers), 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:834 # text = And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be officers in the palace of the king of Babylon.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 issue issue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 12 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj _ _ 13 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 beget beget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 officers officer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 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 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **issue** | shall | thy sons | | | thee | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **beget** | shall | thou | thy sons | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | | 3 | **take away** | shall | fathers *= father* | | | | | of thy sons; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent of son=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **is a** | shall | fathers *= father* | officers | | the palace of the king of Babylon | | | 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} וּמִבָּנֶ֜יךָ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יֵצְא֧וּ מִמְּךָ֛ אֲשֶׁ֥ר תּוֹלִ֖יד יִקָּ֑חוּ וְהָיוּ֙ סָרִיסִ֔ים בְּהֵיכַ֖ל מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶֽל׃ [Isaiah 39:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.39.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:834` 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 39:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.833/) - next →: [Isaiah 39:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.835/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 39:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.39.7/)