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title: Isaiah 8:12 (JPS 1917) — 'Say ye not: A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people do say… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Say ye not: A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people do say: A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor account it dreadful. Who acts: ye, people, pieces. Isaiah 8:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 8:12 · JPS 1917

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'Say ye not: A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people do say: A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor account it dreadful.

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**Who acts:** ye, people, pieces · **What happens:** not say, say, fear, account · **To what, where:** fear, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 8:12 · 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 (ye, people, pieces), 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:174
# text = 'Say ye not: A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people do say: A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor account it dreadful.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	conspiracy	conspiracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	concerning	concern	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	_
11	whereof	whereof	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	conspiracy	conspiracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc:preconj	_	_
21	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
22	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc	_	_
27	account	account	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | this people |  |  |  |  | whereof *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fear** | infinitive | ye | pieces's fear |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fear=Stimulus |
| 4 | **account** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | people |  |  |  | dreadful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fear** |  | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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לֹא־תֹאמְר֣וּן קֶ֔שֶׁר לְכֹ֧ל אֲשֶׁר־יֹאמַ֛ר הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֖ה קָ֑שֶׁר וְאֶת־מוֹרָא֥וֹ לֹֽא־תִֽירְא֖וּ וְלֹ֥א תַעֲרִֽיצוּ׃

[Isaiah 8:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.12/)

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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:174` 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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