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title: Isaiah 50:5 (JPS 1917) — The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward. Who acts: Lord GOD, I. Isaiah 50:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 50:5 · JPS 1917

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The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.

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**Who acts:** Lord GOD, I · **What happens:** open, not be, turn away · **To what, where:** ear

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This is Isaiah 50:5 · 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 (Lord GOD, 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:1122
# text = The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
16	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **open** | present · perfect | the Lord GOD | mine ear |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ear=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | rebellious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn away** | past | the Lord GOD *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, backward *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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אֲדֹנָ֤י יְהוִה֙ פָּתַֽח־לִ֣י אֹ֔זֶן וְאָנֹכִ֖י לֹ֣א מָרִ֑יתִי אָח֖וֹר לֹ֥א נְסוּגֹֽתִי׃

[Isaiah 50:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.5/)

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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:1122` 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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