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title: Isaiah 6:10 (JPS 1917) — Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they, seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their ears, and understanding with their heart, return, and be healed.' Who acts: you, people. Isaiah 6:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Isaiah 6:10 · JPS 1917

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Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they, seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their ears, and understanding with their heart, return, and be healed.'

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**Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** make, shut, see, hear, understand, return · **To what, where:** heart, ears, eyes

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This is Isaiah 6:10 · 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, people), 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:132
# text = Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they, seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their ears, and understanding with their heart, return, and be healed.'
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
20	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	understanding	understand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | the heart of this people |  |  |  | fat *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heart=Product |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | people's ears |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ear=Product |
| 3 | **shut** | infinitive | you *not said here* | people's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with people's eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **hear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with people's ears | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **understand** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with people's heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **return** | infinitive | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **heal** | infinitive · passive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |

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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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הַשְׁמֵן֙ לֵב־הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה וְאָזְנָ֥יו הַכְבֵּ֖ד וְעֵינָ֣יו הָשַׁ֑ע פֶּן־יִרְאֶ֨ה בְעֵינָ֜יו וּבְאָזְנָ֣יו יִשְׁמָ֗ע וּלְבָב֥וֹ יָבִ֛ין וָשָׁ֖ב וְרָ֥פָא לֽוֹ׃

[Isaiah 6:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.6.10/)

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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:132` of Mova's parse database.

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