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title: Isaiah 1:12 (JPS 1917) — When ye come to appear before Me, who hath required this at your han… · tree and pragmatics
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# Isaiah 1:12 · JPS 1917

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When ye come to appear before Me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample My courts?

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** come, appear, require, trample · **To what, where:** this, hand, courts

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This is Isaiah 1:12 · 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 (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:12
# text = When ye come to appear before Me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample My courts?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	trample	trample	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  | before Me |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location |
| 3 | **require** | present · perfect |  | this |  | your hand |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme this=Precondition |
| 4 | **trample** | to-infinitive |  | My courts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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כִּ֣י תָבֹ֔אוּ לֵרָא֖וֹת פָּנָ֑י מִי־בִקֵּ֥שׁ זֹ֛את מִיֶּדְכֶ֖ם רְמֹ֥ס חֲצֵרָֽי׃

[Isaiah 1:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.12/)

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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:12` 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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