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title: Isaiah 65:3 (JPS 1917) — A people that provoke Me to My face continually, that sacrifice in g… · tree and pragmatics
description: A people that provoke Me to My face continually, that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon bricks; Who acts: people, that. Isaiah 65:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 65:3 · JPS 1917

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A people that provoke Me to My face continually, that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon bricks;

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**Who acts:** people, that · **What happens:** provoke, sacrifice, burn · **To what, where:** Me, gardens, incense

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This is Isaiah 65:3 · 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 (people, that), 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:1379
# text = A people that provoke Me to My face continually, that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon bricks;
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	provoke	provoke	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=frag, act=evaluate, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provoke** | present | a people | Me |  |  |  | to My face; continually *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sacrifice** | present | that |  |  | gardens |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **burn** | present | that *not said here* | incense |  |  |  | upon bricks | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent incense=Theme |

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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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הָעָ֗ם הַמַּכְעִיסִ֥ים אוֹתִ֛י עַל־פָּנַ֖י תָּמִ֑יד זֹֽבְחִים֙ בַּגַּנּ֔וֹת וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים עַל־הַלְּבֵנִֽים׃

[Isaiah 65:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.3/)

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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:1379` 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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