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title: Isaiah 55:2 (JPS 1917) — Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let y… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Who acts: you, ye, soul. Isaiah 55:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 55:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

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**Who acts:** you, ye, soul · **What happens:** hearken, eat, be, let, delight · **To what, where:** that, soul, fatness

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This is Isaiah 55:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, soul), 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:1206
# text = Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
1	Hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fatness	fatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Me; diligently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive | ye | that |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your soul |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **delight** | infinitive | your soul *not said here* | soul |  | fatness |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus itself=Experiencer |

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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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לָ֤מָּה תִשְׁקְלוּ־כֶ֙סֶף֙ בְּֽלוֹא־לֶ֔חֶם וִיגִיעֲכֶ֖ם בְּל֣וֹא לְשָׂבְעָ֑ה שִׁמְע֨וּ שָׁמ֤וֹעַ אֵלַי֙ וְאִכְלוּ־ט֔וֹב וְתִתְעַנַּ֥ג בַּדֶּ֖שֶׁן נַפְשְׁכֶֽם׃

[Isaiah 55:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.55.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your gain for that which satisfieth not?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1205/)
2. **Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.**

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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:1206` 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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