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title: Isaiah 1:13 (JPS 1917) — Bring no more vain oblations; it is an offering of abomination unto… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bring no more vain oblations; it is an offering of abomination unto Me; new moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations — I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly. Who acts: you, hand, I. Isaiah 1:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 1:13 · JPS 1917

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Bring no more vain oblations; it is an offering of abomination unto Me; new moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations — I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly.

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**Who acts:** you, hand, I · **What happens:** bring, be, not endure, hold · **To what, where:** vain oblations, offering, iniquity, convocations

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This is Isaiah 1:13 · 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 (you, hand, 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:13
# text = Bring no more vain oblations; it is an offering of abomination unto Me; new moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations — I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly.
1	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	oblations	oblation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	abomination	abomination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	holding	holding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	convocations	convocation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
30	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	along	along	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | vain oblations |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent oblation=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | hand | a offering |  |  |  | of abomination; unto Me | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **endure** | can | I | iniquity |  |  |  | with the solemn assembly | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme iniquity=Circumstance |
| 4 | **hold** |  |  | convocations |  |  |  |  | nom holding «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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לֹ֣א תוֹסִ֗יפוּ הָבִיא֙ מִנְחַת־שָׁ֔וְא קְטֹ֧רֶת תּוֹעֵבָ֛ה הִ֖יא לִ֑י חֹ֤דֶשׁ וְשַׁבָּת֙ קְרֹ֣א מִקְרָ֔א לֹא־אוּכַ֥ל אָ֖וֶן וַעֲצָרָֽה׃

[Isaiah 1:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.13/)

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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:13` 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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