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title: Isaiah 30:10 (JPS 1917) — That say to the seers: 'See not,' and to the prophets: 'Prophesy not… · tree and pragmatics
description: That say to the seers: 'See not,' and to the prophets: 'Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy delusions; Who acts: That. Isaiah 30:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 30:10 · JPS 1917

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That say to the seers: 'See not,' and to the prophets: 'Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy delusions;

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** say, not see, not prophesy, speak, prophesy · **To what, where:** right things, smooth things, delusions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Isaiah 30:10 · 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 (That), 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:628
# text = That say to the seers: 'See not,' and to the prophets: 'Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy delusions;
1	That	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seers	seer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Prophesy	prophesy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	prophesy	prophesy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	delusions	delusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | That |  |  |  |  | to the seers; to the prophets | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to seer=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **prophesy** | infinitive |  | right things |  |  |  | unto us | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive |  | smooth things |  |  |  | unto us | tree rules |
| 5 | **prophesy** | infinitive |  | delusions |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delusion=Theme |

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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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אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָמְר֤וּ לָֽרֹאִים֙ לֹ֣א תִרְא֔וּ וְלַ֣חֹזִ֔ים לֹ֥א תֶחֱזוּ־לָ֖נוּ נְכֹח֑וֹת דַּבְּרוּ־לָ֣נוּ חֲלָק֔וֹת חֲז֖וּ מַהֲתַלּֽוֹת׃

[Isaiah 30:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.10/)

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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:628` 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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