--- title: Isaiah 29:12 — and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned, saying: 'Re… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned, saying: 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith: 'I am not learned.' Who acts: I, writing. Isaiah 29:12 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/) / [chapter 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/29/) / 29:12 # Isaiah 29:12 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ **Who acts:** I, writing · **What happens:** deliver, not learn, say, read, pray · **To what, where:** writing, man, this, thee, I · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Isaiah 29:12 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — I, writing — and what happens in the verse to writing, man, this, thee, I, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 66 chapters of Isaiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וְנִתַּ֣ן הַסֵּ֗פֶר עַל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹֽא־יָדַ֥ע סֵ֛פֶר לֵאמֹ֖ר קְרָ֣א נָא־זֶ֑ה וְאָמַ֕ר לֹ֥א יָדַ֖עְתִּי סֵֽפֶר׃ס [and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned, saying: 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith: 'I am not learned.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.604/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:ISA:550 # text = וְנִתַּ֣ן הַסֵּ֗פֶר עַל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹֽא־יָדַ֥ע סֵ֛פֶר לֵאמֹ֖ר קְרָ֣א נָא־זֶ֑ה וְאָמַ֕ר לֹ֥א יָדַ֖עְתִּי סֵֽפֶר׃ס # verse = ISA.29.12 1-2 וְנִתַּ֣ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_29:12!1|MId=o230290120011|Strong=2050b 2 נִתַּ֣ן נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.is.given|Ref=ISA_29:12!1|MId=o230290120012|Strong=5414|Frame=A1:230290120022;|Type=weqatal 3-4 הַסֵּ֗פֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=ISA_29:12!2|MId=o230290120021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 סֵּ֗פֶר סֵפֶר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Gloss=scroll|Ref=ISA_29:12!2|MId=o230290120022|Strong=5612 5 עַל֩ עַל ADP _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=to|Ref=ISA_29:12!3|MId=o230290120031|Strong=5921 6 אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 8 mark _ Gloss=[one].who|Ref=ISA_29:12!4|MId=o230290120041|Strong=0834|Type=relative 7 לֹֽא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 8 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=ISA_29:12!5|MId=o230290120051|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 8 יָדַ֥ע יָדַע VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 5 acl:relcl _ Gloss=he.knows|Ref=ISA_29:12!6|MId=o230290120061|Strong=3045|Frame=A0:;A1:230290120071;|Type=qatal 9 סֵ֛פֶר סֵפֶר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 obj _ Gloss=writing|Ref=ISA_29:12!7|MId=o230290120071|Strong=5612 10-11 לֵאמֹ֖ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 12 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=ISA_29:12!8|MId=o230290120081|Strong=3807a 11 אמֹ֖ר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 10 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=ISA_29:12!8|MId=o230290120082|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:;A1:230290120091;|Type=infinitive_construct 12 קְרָ֣א קָרָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 advcl _ Gloss=read.aloud|Ref=ISA_29:12!9|MId=o230290120091|Strong=7121|Frame=A0:230290120061;A1:230290120111;|Type=imperative 13 נָא־ נָא INTJ _ _ 12 discourse _ Gloss=please|Ref=ISA_29:12!10|MId=o230290120101|Strong=4994|Type=exhortation|SpaceAfter=No 14 זֶ֑ה זֶה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 obj _ Gloss=this|Ref=ISA_29:12!11|MId=o230290120111|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative 15-16 וְאָמַ֕ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_29:12!12|MId=o230290120121|Strong=2050b 16 אָמַ֕ר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.says|Ref=ISA_29:12!12|MId=o230290120122|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:230290120061;|Type=weqatal 17 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 18 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=ISA_29:12!13|MId=o230290120131|Strong=3808|Type=negative 18 יָדַ֖עְתִּי יָדַע VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 16 ccomp _ Gloss=I.know|Ref=ISA_29:12!14|MId=o230290120141|Strong=3045|Frame=A0:230290120061;A1:230290120151;|Type=qatal 19 סֵֽפֶר סֵפֶר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 obj _ Gloss=writing|Ref=ISA_29:12!15|MId=o230290120151|Strong=5612|SpaceAfter=No 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=ISA_29:12!15|SpaceAfter=No 21 ס ס PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=ISA_29:12!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - hedged: yes (נָא) - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | נִתַּן *it is given* | weqatal · niphal | | סֵּפֶר *scroll* | | | | **not** יָדַע *he knows* | qatal · qal | | סֵפֶר *writing* | | | | אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal | | קְרָא *read aloud* | | | | קְרָא *read aloud* | imperative · qal | יָדַע *he knows* | זֶה *this* | | | | אָמַר *he says* | weqatal · qal | יָדַע *he knows* | | | | | **not** יָדַעְתִּי *I know* | qatal · qal | יָדַע *he knows* | סֵֽפֶר *writing* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos} וְיִתְיְהַב סַפְרָא לִדְלָא יָדַע סִפְרָא לְמֵימַר קְרֵי כְעַן דֵין וְיֵימַר לֵית אֲנָא יָדַע סִפְרָא: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned, saying: 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith: 'I am not learned.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.604/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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