--- title: Isaiah 51:7 (JPS 1917) — Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose hea… · tree and pragmatics description: Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My law; fear ye not the taunt of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings. Who acts: you, heart, ye. 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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, heart, 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:1137 # text = Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My law; fear ye not the taunt of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings. 1 Hearken hearken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 unto unto ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 obl _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 righteousness righteousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 acl:relcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 20 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 taunt taunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 30 cc _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 dismayed dismay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 revilings reviling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* | ye | | | | unto Me | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | present | | righteousness | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer righteousness=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | My law's heart | My law | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **fear** | infinitive | ye | the taunt of men | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer taunt=Stimulus | | 5 | **dismay** | infinitive · passive | | ye | | people's revilings | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 6 | **taunt** | | | men | | | | | nom taunt «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 אֵלַי֙ יֹ֣דְעֵי צֶ֔דֶק עַ֖ם תּוֹרָתִ֣י בְלִבָּ֑ם אַל־תִּֽירְאוּ֙ חֶרְפַּ֣ת אֱנ֔וֹשׁ וּמִגִּדֻּפֹתָ֖ם אַל־תֵּחָֽתּוּ׃ [Isaiah 51:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1137` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 51:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1136/) - next →: [Isaiah 51:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1138/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 51:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.7/)