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title: Isaiah 28:14 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scoffers, the ballad-mongers… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scoffers, the ballad-mongers of this people which is in Jerusalem: Who acts: you, ye, people. Isaiah 28:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 28:14 · JPS 1917

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Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scoffers, the ballad-mongers of this people which is in Jerusalem:

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**Who acts:** you, ye, people · **What happens:** hear, scoffer, be, word · **To what, where:** word, Jerusalem, LORD

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This is Isaiah 28:14 · 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, ye, 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:574
# text = Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scoffers, the ballad-mongers of this people which is in Jerusalem:
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	scoffers	scoffer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	mongers	monger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- 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 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | the word of the LORD |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **scoffer** |  | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | this people |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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לָכֵ֛ן שִׁמְע֥וּ דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה אַנְשֵׁ֣י לָצ֑וֹן מֹֽשְׁלֵי֙ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[Isaiah 28:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.14/)

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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:574` 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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