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title: Isaiah 1:10 (JPS 1917) — Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. Who acts: you, ye. Isaiah 1:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 1:10 · JPS 1917

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Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

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**Who acts:** you, ye · **What happens:** hear, ruler, give, people, word · **To what, where:** word, ear, LORD

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This is Isaiah 1:10 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. 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, ye), 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:10
# text = Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
1	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sodom	Sodom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	vocative	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Gomorrah	Gomorrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | the word of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ruler** |  | ye |  |  |  |  | of Sodom | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive |  | ear |  |  |  | unto the law of our God | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 4 | **people** |  | ye |  |  |  |  | of Gomorrah | tree rules |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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}

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שִׁמְע֥וּ דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה קְצִינֵ֣י סְדֹ֑ם הַאֲזִ֛ינוּ תּוֹרַ֥ת אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ עַ֥ם עֲמֹרָֽה׃

[Isaiah 1:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.10/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:10` 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.

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