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title: Isaiah 48:8 (JPS 1917) — Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened; for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. Who acts: thou, I. Isaiah 48:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 48:8 · JPS 1917

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Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened; for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

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**Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** not hear, not know, not open, know, deal, call · **To what, where:** ear, transgressor, womb · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 48:8 · 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 (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:1066
# text = Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened; for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
1	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heardest	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knewest	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
13	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
18	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	treacherously	treacherously	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	wast	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	transgressor	transgressor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | past | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **open** | past · passive |  | thine ear |  |  |  | from *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **deal** | would | thou |  |  |  |  | treacherously *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **call** | past · passive | thou *not said here* | a transgressor |  | the womb |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: from womb=Source |

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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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גַּ֣ם לֹֽא־שָׁמַ֗עְתָּ גַּ֚ם לֹ֣א יָדַ֔עְתָּ גַּ֕ם מֵאָ֖ז לֹא־פִתְּחָ֣ה אָזְנֶ֑ךָ כִּ֤י יָדַ֙עְתִּי֙ בָּג֣וֹד תִּבְגּ֔וֹד וּפֹשֵׁ֥עַ מִבֶּ֖טֶן קֹ֥רָא לָֽךְ׃

[Isaiah 48:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.48.8/)

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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:1066` of Mova's parse database.

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