--- title: Isaiah 44:21 (JPS 1917) — Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art My servant;… · tree and pragmatics description: Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art My servant; I have formed thee, thou art Mine own servant; O Israel, thou shouldest not forget Me. Who acts: you, thou, I. 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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, thou, I), 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:994 # text = Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art My servant; I have formed thee, thou art Mine own servant; O Israel, thou shouldest not forget Me. 1 Remember remember VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 O o INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 6 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 13 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 advcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 formed form VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 parataxis _ _ 20 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 23 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 Mine mine PRON PRP$ Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 parataxis _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 28 O o INTJ UH _ 29 discourse _ _ 29 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 vocative _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nsubj _ _ 32 shouldest should AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 35 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* | this things | | | | Jacob and Israel *vocative* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | thou | My servant | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **form** | present · perfect | I | thee | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | thou | Mine own servant | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **forget** | should | thou | Me | | | | Israel *vocative* | 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} זְכָר־אֵ֣לֶּה יַעֲקֹ֔ב וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל כִּ֣י עַבְדִּי־אָ֑תָּה יְצַרְתִּ֤יךָ עֶֽבֶד־לִי֙ אַ֔תָּה יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֥א תִנָּשֵֽׁנִי׃ [Isaiah 44:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:994` 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 44:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.993/) - next →: [Isaiah 44:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.995/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 44:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.21/)