--- title: Isaiah 37:17 (JPS 1917) — Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open Thine eyes, O LORD, and se… · tree and pragmatics description: Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open Thine eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to taunt the living God. Who acts: you, Sennacherib. 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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, Sennacherib), 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:777 # text = Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open Thine eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to taunt the living God. 1 Incline incline VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 Thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 O o INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 12 Thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 O o INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ _ 16 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 vocative _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Sennacherib Sennacherib PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 taunt taunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **incline** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thine ear | | | | LORD *vocative* | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 2 | **hear** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **open** | infinitive | | Thine eyes | | | | LORD *vocative* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 4 | **see** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **hear** | infinitive | you *not said here* | all words of Sennacherib | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 6 | **send** | present · perfect | Sennacherib | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **taunt** | to-infinitive | Sennacherib *not said here* | the living God | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Patient | | 8 | **word** | | | Sennacherib | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} הַטֵּ֨ה יְהוָ֤ה ׀ אָזְנְךָ֙ וּֽשְׁמָ֔ע פְּקַ֧ח יְהוָ֛ה עֵינֶ֖ךָ וּרְאֵ֑ה וּשְׁמַ֗ע אֵ֚ת כָּל־דִּבְרֵ֣י סַנְחֵרִ֔יב אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁלַ֔ח לְחָרֵ֖ף אֱלֹהִ֥ים חָֽי׃ [Isaiah 37:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:777` 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. - ← previous: [Isaiah 37:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.776/) - next →: [Isaiah 37:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.778/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 37:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.17/)