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title: Isaiah 6:9 (JPS 1917) — And He said: 'Go, and tell this people: hear ye indeed, but understa… · tree and pragmatics
description: And He said: 'Go, and tell this people: hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Who acts: sin. Isaiah 6:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 6:9 · JPS 1917

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And He said: 'Go, and tell this people: hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

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**Who acts:** sin · **What happens:** say, go, tell, hear, not understand, see · **To what, where:** people, ye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 6:9 · 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 (sin), 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:131
# text = And He said: 'Go, and tell this people: hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	understand	understand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	obj	_	_
24	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | this people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 4 | **hear** | infinitive |  | ye |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ye=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **understand** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive |  | ye |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ye=Stimulus |
| 7 | **not** **perceive** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לֵ֥ךְ וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ לָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה שִׁמְע֤וּ שָׁמ֙וֹעַ֙ וְאַל־תָּבִ֔ינוּ וּרְא֥וּ רָא֖וֹ וְאַל־תֵּדָֽעוּ׃

[Isaiah 6:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.6.9/)

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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:131` 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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