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title: Isaiah 28:12 (JPS 1917) — To whom it was said: 'This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary; a… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom it was said: 'This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary; and this is the refreshing'; yet they would not hear. Who acts: This, ye, rest. Isaiah 28:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 28:12 · JPS 1917

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To whom it was said: 'This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary; and this is the refreshing'; yet they would not hear.

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**Who acts:** This, ye, rest · **What happens:** say, be, give, not hear · **To what, where:** tongue, rest, weary, refreshing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 28:12 · 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 (This, ye, rest), 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:572
# text = To whom it was said: 'This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary; and this is the refreshing'; yet they would not hear.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
8	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	refreshing	refresh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | tongue |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: to whom=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | This | the rest and the refreshing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | ye | rest | the weary |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to weary=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | the refreshing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **hear** | would | rest |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: 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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אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ אָמַ֣ר אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם זֹ֤את הַמְּנוּחָה֙ הָנִ֣יחוּ לֶֽעָיֵ֔ף וְזֹ֖את הַמַּרְגֵּעָ֑ה וְלֹ֥א אָב֖וּא שְׁמֽוֹעַ׃

[Isaiah 28:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.12/)

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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:572` 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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