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title: Isaiah 29:13 (JPS 1917) — And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near, and with thei… · tree and pragmatics
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# Isaiah 29:13 · JPS 1917

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And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near, and with their mouth and with their lips do honour Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear of Me is a commandment of men learned by rote;

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**Who acts:** Lord, people, fear, words · **What happens:** say, draw, honour, remove, be, learn · **To what, where:** Me, heart, commandment, men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 29:13 · 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 (Lord, people, fear, words), 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:605
# text = And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near, and with their mouth and with their lips do honour Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear of Me is a commandment of men learned by rote;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Forasmuch	forasmuch	SCONJ	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	near	near	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
23	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
44	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	rote	rote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw** | present | this people |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **honour** | present · do-support | this people *not said here* | Me |  |  |  | with words's mouth and words's lips | tree rules |
| 4 | **remove** | present · perfect | this people *not said here* | words's heart |  |  |  | from Me; far *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent heart=Theme from i=Source |
| 5 | **is a** | present | words's fear of Me | a commandment |  |  |  | of men | tree rules |
| 6 | **learn** | participle |  | men *not said here* |  |  |  | by rote | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fear** |  | words *= word* | Me |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent 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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲדֹנָ֗י יַ֚עַן כִּ֤י נִגַּשׁ֙ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה בְּפִ֤יו וּבִשְׂפָתָיו֙ כִּבְּד֔וּנִי וְלִבּ֖וֹ רִחַ֣ק מִמֶּ֑נִּי וַתְּהִ֤י יִרְאָתָם֙ אֹתִ֔י מִצְוַ֥ת אֲנָשִׁ֖ים מְלֻמָּדָֽה׃

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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:605` of Mova's parse database.

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