--- title: Isaiah 1:2 (JPS 1917) — Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: Ch… · tree and pragmatics description: Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: Children I have reared, and brought up, and they have rebelled against Me. Who acts: you, LORD, I, Children. 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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, LORD, I, Children), 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:1 # text = Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: Children I have reared, and brought up, and they have rebelled against Me. 1 Hear hear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 O o INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 4 heavens heaven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 vocative _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 8 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 O o INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 11 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 reared rear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 rebelled rebel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 32 against against ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 . . 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 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | heavens *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ear | | | | earth *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the LORD | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rear** | present · perfect | I | Children | | | | | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 5 | **bring up** | participle | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **rebel** | present · perfect | Children *= child* | | | | | against Me | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against i=Maleficiary | 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} שִׁמְע֤וּ שָׁמַ֙יִם֙ וְהַאֲזִ֣ינִי אֶ֔רֶץ כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבֵּ֑ר בָּנִים֙ גִּדַּ֣לְתִּי וְרוֹמַ֔מְתִּי וְהֵ֖ם פָּ֥שְׁעוּ בִֽי׃ [Isaiah 1:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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