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title: Isaiah 30:9 (JPS 1917) — For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that refuse… · tree and pragmatics
description: For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that refuse to hear the teaching of the LORD; Who acts: arrogancy, children. Isaiah 30:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 30:9 · JPS 1917

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For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that refuse to hear the teaching of the LORD;

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**Who acts:** arrogancy, children · **What happens:** be, refuse, not hear, teach · **To what, where:** rebellious people, teaching, LORD

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This is Isaiah 30:9 · 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 (arrogancy, children), 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:627
# text = For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that refuse to hear the teaching of the LORD;
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	lying	lie	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	refuse	refuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | arrogancy | a rebellious people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **refuse** | present | children |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hear** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | the teaching of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer teaching=Stimulus |
| 4 | **teach** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act 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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כִּ֣י עַ֤ם מְרִי֙ ה֔וּא בָּנִ֖ים כֶּחָשִׁ֑ים בָּנִ֕ים לֹֽא־אָב֥וּ שְׁמ֖וֹעַ תּוֹרַ֥ת יְהוָֽה׃

[Isaiah 30:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.9/)

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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:627` 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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